The Secret Garden

THE SECRET GARDEN
Stage 3
'We're alike, you and me,' old Ben Weatherstaff said to
Mary. 'We're not pretty to look at and we're both very
disagreeable.'
Poor Mary! Nobody wants her, nobody likes her. Her
parents have died, and she is sent home from India to live
in her uncle's house in Yorkshire. It is a big old house, with
nearly a hundred rooms, but most of them are shut and
locked.Mary is cross and bored, and lonely. There is
nothing to do all day, and no one to talk to, except old Ben
Weatherstaff, the gardener.
But then Mary learns about the secret garden. The door is
locked and hidden, and the key is lost. No one has been
inside the secret garden for ten years - except the robin,
who flies over the wall. Mary watches the robin, and
wonders where the key i s . . .And then there is that strange crying in the night,
somewhere in the house. It sounds like a child crying...
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 and died in
1924, From the age of sixteen she lived mostly in the USA,
but often returned to England. She was a writer all her life
and wrote many books, but The Secret Garden is her most
famous story.
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For a full list of titles in all the Oxford Bookworms series,
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Green Series
Stage 2 (700 headwords)
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
*Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery
The Children of the New Forest Captain Marryat
Five Children and It Edith Nesbit
*Huckleberry Finn MarkTwain
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
Marty Doolin Catherine Cookson
*Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
A Stranger at Green Knowe Lucy M. Boston
Too Old to Rock and Roll Jan Mark (short stories)
*The Call of the Wild Jack London
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
The Crown of Violet Geoffrey Trease
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
Moondial Helen Cresswell
On the Edge Gillian Cross
Stage3(1000headwords)
"The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope
*The Railway Children Edith Nesbit
*The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll
'Who Sir, Me Sir?' K.M.Veyton
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
Stage 4 (1400 headwords
•Black Beauty Anna Sewell
The Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff
* Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
* Little Women Louisa MayAlcott
Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore
The Silver Sword Ian Serraillier
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
*Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea Arthur Ransome
The Whispering Knights Penelope Lively
Black Series
Suggested lilies for younger readers from the main Bookworms list:
Stage 1 (400 headwords)
The Elephant Man Tim Vicary *The Phantom of the Opera JenniferBassett
The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs
*Dead Man's Island John Escott
*Dracula Bram Stoker
Under the Moon Rowena Akinyemi
Stage 2 (700 headwords)
Ear-rings from Frankfurt Reg Wright
*Voodoo Island Michael Duckworth
Chemical Secret Tim Vicary
•Skyjack! Tim Vicary
Stage 3 (1000 headwords)
The Star Zoo Harry Gilbert
Wyatt's Hurricane Desmond Bagley
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Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
retold by Clare West
Illustrated by
Jenny Brackley
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