The Secret Garden is a novel by an English-American novelist and playwright Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published as a book in 1911. The story is about a 10-year-old girl Mary, who discovers a secret garden surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. With the help of two unexpected companions, she discovers a way in...

In 2012, the novel was ranked number 15 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal in America.