The Secret Garden

“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. 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.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

One of the most recent books that I read, The Secret Garden eventually became one of my favorite books. Mary Lennox ended up being one of my favorite characters. At the beginning, she starts off as a spoiled brat, but went through some character development by the time she discovers the garden that was long abandoned.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett