Secret Garden
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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A gripping retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic tale of mystery and friendship. When Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle at his remote home on the moor, she thinks she'll be lonely and bored. But when she finds a rusty old key and discovers a secret cousin she never knew she had, everything at Misselthwaite Manor changes. Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
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Throwback
Also a girl thrown into an unfamiliar world and learning her family's hidden past, but funnier, teen-aged, and with romance attached.
The way you make me feel
Shares the prickly, stubborn heroine who softens through unlikely friendships, though set in sunny modern-day life with flirting instead of a hidden garden.
How to Write a Love Story
Another story about a girl uncovering a grandmother's secret, but lighter, contemporary, and centred on teen romance rather than a mysterious house.
And Then We Ran
Keeps the theme of escaping controlling adults toward a new life, but swaps moorland mystery for a fast teen road trip and romance.
Healing Effect
Follows the healing-through-connection thread the garden story turns on, but adult, contemporary, and considerably more grown-up in content.
Kindred Spirits
Like the manor's odd trio, it's about two lonely misfits stuck side by side becoming friends; much shorter, wry, and teen-flirty.