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 c r y i n g . . .
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.
OXFORD BOOKWORMS
Series Editor: Jennifer Bassett
OXFORD BOOKWORMS
For a full list of titles in all the Oxford Bookworms series, please refer to the Oxford English catalogue. Titles available include:
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 Mark Twain
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
Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Stage3(1000 headwords)
"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
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 c r y i n g . . .
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.
OXFORD BOOKWORMS
Series Editor: Jennifer Bassett
OXFORD BOOKWORMS
For a full list of titles in all the Oxford Bookworms series, please refer to the Oxford English catalogue. Titles available include:
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 Mark Twain
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
Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Stage3(1000 headwords)
"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