Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline

In this bittersweet YA remix ofThe Secret Garden, Cherie Dimaline,
award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, weaves an enchanting
story of family, healing, and girls reclaiming control of their own lives,
part of the Remixed Classics series.
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 selfnamed 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 (...)

Cherie Dimaline's 2017 book, The Marrow Thieves, won the Governor
General's Award and the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Young Readers, was a
finalist for the White Pine Award, and was the fan favorite for CBC's 2018
Canada Reads. Her novel Empire of Wild became an instant Canadian
bestseller and was named Indigo's #1 Best Book of 2019. Cherie spent many
years working in and for Indigenous communities and now lives in her home
territory where she is a registered and active member of the Georgian Bay
Metis Community

Feiwel and Friends
On Sale: Sep 5/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 320 pages
9781250842657 • $26.99 • CL - With dust jacket
YA Fic / Historical / Canada • Ages 13-18 years
Series: Remixed Classics