Mandy is a generally happy 10 year old girl, who has grown up in an orphanage. All her life, she has dreamed of having something she could call her very own and finally finds it one day when she sneaks over the orphanage wall and discovers an abandoned cottage in the woods. Fixing up the cottage and its garden becomes an obsessive secret, but Mandy finds fate in misfortune. Mandy doesn't realize how badly she wants a real family until, one winter day, the Fitzgeralds discover her in the cottage deathly ill and bring her into their household to nurse her back to health. After being truly happy as part of a family, how will she survive life in the orphanage?Mandy will be enjoyed by readers, ages 9-12, who enjoy books like The Secret Garden. It can be found in the Juvenile section under J EDW.
