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").
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.