Young Mary Lennox is orphaned by an earthquake in India and sent to England to live with her uncle Archibald Craven at his cold ancestral manor in Yorkshire. She briefly meets him, who is still mourning for his wife who died ten years ago, but she is mostly left on her own. A resourceful and inquisitive girl, she soon makes two exciting discoveries. First, she finds an overgrown secret garden, which was her aunt's favorite and locked up since her death. Second, she finds out that she a cousin named Colin Craven, a sickly boy who has been told that he must remain in bed out of the daylight at all times. Once she and another new friend, Dickon, have brought the garden back to life they decide that Colin must see it, a decision that will change several lives.—J-26