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THE SECRET GARDEN
1. Little Miss Mary
2. Mary in Yorkshire
3. Finding the secret garden
4. Meeting Dickon
5. Meeting Colin
6. Colin is afraid
7. Colin and the garden
8. Mr Craven comes home
GLOSSARY
ACTIVITIES. Before Reading
ACTIVITIES. While Reading
ACTIVITIES. After Reading
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY
Nobody seemed to care about Mary. She was born in India, where her father was a British official. He was busy with his work, and her mother, who was very beautiful, spent all her time going to parties. So an Indian woman, Kamala, was paid to take care of the little girl. Mary was not a pretty child. She had a thin angry face and thin yellow hair. She was always giving orders to Kamala, who had to obey. Mary never thought of other people, but only of herself. In fact, she was a very selfish, disagreeable, bad-tempered little girl.
One very hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she woke up and saw that instead of Kamala there was a different Indian servant by her bed.
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‘What are you doing here?’ she asked crossly. ‘Go away! And send Kamala to me at once!’
The woman looked afraid. ‘I’m sorry, Miss Mary, she – she – she can’t come!’
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