Sara Crewe is a very intelligent, polite, and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy soldier in India, Sara was brought all the way to London in Victorian-era England for a formal education. At the upscale boarding school, Sara is forced to tolerate the haughty, disdainful headmistress, Miss...

A Little Princess is a classic of children's literature by the author of The Secret Garden. Seven-year-old Sara Crewe comes to London to attend Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, where she must live apart from her adored father. Sara is a bright and imaginative child who is both...

Sara is brought to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies by her father, Captain Crewe, because the climate in India doesn't agree with children. After several years as Miss Minchin's show pupil, news comes that Captain Crewe has died penniless, and left Sara destitute. Miss Minchin keeps...

Mary Lennox is a spoiled, narcissistic, recently orphaned middle-class kid. She was taken to the quiet secluded country house of an uncle who had almost completely withdrawn after his wife's death. Mary is gradually drawn into the hidden side of the house: why should she hear an invisible child...

The story is told in Francis Hodgson Burnett's classic novel The Little Princess, originally written as a serialized novel Sara Crewe or What Happened to Miss Minchin and set in 1888 in St. Published in Nicholas Magazine. She tells the story of Sara Crewe, a bright, wealthy young girl at Miss...

The novel follows the problems of a wealthy young girl, Sarah Kru, who is sent to an authoritarian boarding school in London during her father's campaign in India. Thanks to Captain Crewe's money, Sara was treated like a little princess until the news of her father's tragic death came one day. The...