# The Secret Garden

**Author:** Frances Hodgson Burnett
**Grade range:** Grades 4–5
**Age range:** 9–10
**First published:** 1911
**Page count:** 256
**Genre:** Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780140366662`
**ISBN-10:** `0140366660`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-secret-garden
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

## Themes

- friendship, fiction
- people with disabilities, fiction
- great britain, fiction
- child and youth fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 4-5 story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 4-5 story exemplar](https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf)

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