The Secret Garden (Level 3)

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The Secret Garden (Level 3)

Short description:
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.

There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.

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Glossary

1. angel: a messenger from God, or a very good person
2. bad-tempered: often cross and angry
3. bury (past tense buried): to put a person or thing in the ground
4. confused: not able to think clearly, or to understand something
5. cousin: the child of your uncle or aunt
6. dialect: a different way of speaking the same language in a different part of a country (e.g. Yorkshire)
7. disagreeable: not pleasing; bad-tempered
8. furious: very angry
9. handsome: good-looking (usually for a boy or a man)
10. hop (past tense hopped): to jump on one foot
11. horrid: bad, terrible, not at all nice
12. magic: something strange that can make wonderful, unusual things happen
13. shocked: very surprised (by something unpleasant)
14. skip (past tense skipped): to jump again and again over a rope that you are swinging
15. stare: to look at someone for a long time
16. tears: drops of water that come from your eyes when you cry
17. ugly: not beautiful
18. wander: to walk slowly with no special plan
19. whisper: to speak very softly and quietly