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").
Clare Mallory Clare Mallory is the pen name under which Winifred Constance McQuilkan Hall (25 September 1913 – 20 April 1991) wrote ten children's books published between 1947 and 1951.