![]() She had played at gardening by (secreting stolen glass flowers under her parents' trailer / sticking cut flowers in mounds of dirt). (view spoiler) [(Roo Fanshaw / Mary Lennox), a peevish, undersized, neglected child, is suddenly made an orphan due to (a drug deal gone bad / a cholera epidemic). That's probably a good thing, because otherwise she would probably be at the center of a firestorm for, if not plagiarism, out and out theft of the entire story. The author says outright this book was "inspired" by Burnett's classic. ![]() ![]() On the other hand, it's a complete retread of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, almost scene for scene and character for character. On the one hand, it's a not bad story of Roo Fanshaw, an orphaned girl taken in by her uncle, who discovers new friends and brings a neglected garden back to life. ![]()
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