The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Orphaned after both her parents die of cholera in India, Mary is sent back to England to live in her uncle's bleak, grey house on the Yorkshire moors. Cross and miserable, Mary explores the house and its garden and comes across a high wall with apparently no way in. Only the robin, flying in and out over the wall, seems able to enter this mysterious place. Then Mary finds a key, and with the help of the robin discovers a way into the garden. She is spellbound. As the garden weaves its own magical spell, Mary and her family are changed forever. (9+)