The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Juvenile Fiction Classics Family

<p><strong>When orphaned Mary Lennox was sent off to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.</strong> It was true too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Indeed she was Mistress Mary Quite Contrary through and through! Yet there was something strange about the place she was heading for. Said Mrs. Medlock to Mary beforehand Do you know anything about your uncle? No said Mary frowning. She frowned because she remembered how her father and mother had never talked to her about anything in particular. Humph muttered Mrs. Medlock staring at Mary's queer unresponsive little face for a few moments. Then she said I suppose you might as well be told something to prepare you. You are going to a rather queer place!</p>