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(0)Frances Hodgson Burnett
Author
Publisher
Hesperus Press Limited
Pub. Date
2014, c1896.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Clorinda is born, the odds seem stacked against her. First and foremost, she is a girl like all her sisters before her and her father wants only a son. Furthermore, her mother dies in childbirth, and her father, considering all his daughters worthless, refuses contact. Despite this, Clorinda Wildairs manages not only to survive, but to grow up into a very remarkable and strong-willed child. Thus when father and daughter happen to meet for the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and 'friends.' When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an abandoned rooftop garden and an even bigger secret...her...
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 50 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sweet Sara Crewe has everything a little girl could want: A loving family, lots of friends and a closet full of frilly dresses, but when life takes a turn and Sara goes from riches to rags, will she realize that her true worth lies not in what she has, but what's in her heart? Includes new Silly Song, 'You're My BFF.'
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 8
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary Lennox didn't think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met. At first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
GN 510L
Physical Desc
177 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphan Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, sour and miserable. With the help of a clever robin and her new friend Dickon, Mary discovers a neglected garden and a lonely boy named Colin. Together the children bring life to the garden and joy to one another.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the fate of Sara Crewe who, after her father's death leaves her penniless, loses her privileged status at Miss Minchin's London boarding school and endures many hardships and cruel treatment until she is helped by a mysterious benefactor.
