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Additional authors

1. Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924.

Description

1. 274 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Mary Lennox didn't think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met. At first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and never like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms of spring, Mary comes to find that this strange place and its strange people--most of whom are Indigenous self-named "halfbreeds"--may be what she can finally call home. Then one night Mary discovers Olive, her cousin who has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a "nervous condition." The girls become fast friends, and Mary wonders why this big-hearted girl is being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel sicker. When Olive's domineering stepmother returns to the manor, it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on. With the help of a charming, intoxicatingly vivacious Metis girl named Sophie, Mary begins digging further into family secrets both wonderful and horrifying to figure out how to free Olive. And some of the answers may lie within the walls of a hidden, overgrown and long-forgotten garden the girls stumble upon while wandering the wilds ...
2. A gay, Indigenous reworking of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden. Georgian Bay, 1901. Sent to live with an uncle after her father's death, Mary Craven at first finds this place and its Indigenous people strange. One night Mary discover Olive, her cousin, has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a "nervous condition." She discovers that Olive is being fed medicine that only makes her sicker, and that Olive's domineering stepmother may be behind something sinister. With the help of Sophie, a Métis girl, Mary looks for answers within the walls of an overgrown, long-forgotten garden. -- adapted from jacket

Series statement

1. Remixed classics series ; [8]

Uniform title

1. Remixed classics ; 8.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Orphans > Juvenile fiction
3. Secrecy > Juvenile fiction
4. Cousins > Juvenile fiction
5. Gardens > Juvenile fiction
6. Friendship > Juvenile fiction
7. Lesbian teenagers > Juvenile fiction
8. Gay people > Juvenile fiction
9. Friendships > Juvenile fiction
10. Gay men > Juvenile fiction
11. LGBTQ+ people > Juvenile fiction
12. LGBTQ+ youth > Juvenile fiction
13. Lesbian youth > Juvenile fiction
14. Lesbians > Juvenile fiction
15. Men > Juvenile fiction
16. Sexual minorities > Juvenile fiction
17. Secrecy
18. Cousins
19. Gardens
20. Friendship
21. Lesbian teenagers
22. Gay people
23. Orphans
24. Canada > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction
25. Canada

Genre/Form

1. Historical fiction.
2. Novels.
3. Gay fiction.
4. Queer fiction.
5. LGBTQ+ fiction.
6. History.
7. Juvenile works.
8. Fiction.

Call number

1. JFD 23-2256

Audience (note)

1. 810L

Author

1. Dimaline, Cherie, 1975- author.

Title

1. Into the bright open : a Secret garden remix / Cherie Dimaline.

Publisher

1. New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023.

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Remixed classics series ; [8]
2. Remixed classics ; 8.

Audience

1. 810L Lexile

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Based on (work): Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. Secret garden.

LCCN

1. 2022061544

ISBN

1. 9781250842657 (hardcover)
2. 1250842654 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JFD 23-2256