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?
The Secret Garden The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911, after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made.
John F. Hayes (author) John Francis Hayes (August 5, 1904 – November 1980) was a Canadian writer. He is known best for ten children's historical novels. Among them, "A Land Divided" and "Rebels Ride at Night" won the Governor General's Award for juvenile fiction as the year's best Canadian works of 1951 and 1953. Another, "The Dangerous Cove" (1957), won the Canada Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1959. For his body of work he was named the second recipient of the Vicky Metcalf Award, in 1964.