Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven. On her eleventh birthday her life of luxury comes to an abrupt end when she receives news that her father has died, shortly after losing his entire fortune. The school-mistress turns Sara into a servant to pay off her debts, and though Sara uses the entire force of her imagination and her good heart to remember who she is and keep starvation from the door,

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"'You are a story--I am a story.' Introduce to your family or rediscover for yourself three classic children's novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an English-born writer who moved to America at age 15 and who now joins the Library of America. This authoritative edition restores the novels to their original American texts, as Burnett wrote them and features over 40 painstakingly restored illustrations--16 in full color--plus a ribbon marker, helpful...

"The little princess: When Sara Crewe's father is sent to fight for England in the Boer War, the little girl is sent to an exclusive boarding school. When she hears he has been killed, her world crashes around her. The only thing that keeps the young tyke going is the hope that he is alive and will one day return to be reunited with her." -- "My favorite brunette: Ronnie Jackson is on death row in San Quentin, where a throng of reporters has gathered...