The 1962 children's novel Mine for Keeps was written by which  Canadian children's author as a different plot twist after Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden?
Mine for Keeps Mine for Keeps is a 1962 book by the Canadian children's author Jean Little. At the time she wrote "Mine for Keeps", Little was teaching in a school for the disabled and she had written the book after becoming tired of reading her students books in which disabled child characters either meet deaths or recover completely (like Clara in "Heidi", or Colin in "The Secret Garden").
Michael Christie (writer) Michael Christie is a Canadian writer, whose debut story collection "The Beggar's Garden" was a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.