A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Classic Reader 2005
ISBN/ASIN: 193416920X
Number of pages: 204
Description:
The story of young Sara Crewe who while growing up in a well to do household suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at Miss Minchin's boarding school. To survive those hard times she imagines herself to be a little princess as she awaits her rescue from a mysterious benefactor.
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