When her father dies leaving her penniless, Sara Crewe, a once privileged pupil at Miss Minchin's London boarding school, endures many hardships and cruel treatment until she is helped by a mysterious benefactor.

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.

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Sara Crewe has a wonderful life. Her father loves her. She's going to a top school with all the luxuries a little girl could ever want. Sara is pretty. Sara is kind. Sara has everything she wants and needs. Until one day, word comes that her father has lost his fortune and died in India and her mean headmistress wants Sara to pay back all of the money he owed. Sara's life turns upside down and she is forced to work as a servant in the school she once attended. Despite all of her misfortunes, Sara maintains a kind spirit and a cheerful attitude. She works had and makes friends with everyone she meets--including a funny monkey who lives next door. When the monkey's owner makes the acquaintance of this sweet little girl, Sara's father's past is once again considered. Is Sara's fate set as a servant girl? A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a sweet childhood classic that deserves to be read again and again.

♥♥ A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ♥♥ A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. ♥♥ A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ♥♥ According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. Nicholas) with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time. ♥♥ A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ♥♥ Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.S. National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In 2012 it was ranked number 56 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily U.S. audience. It was the second of two Burnett novels among the Top 100, with The Secret Garden number 15. ♥♥ A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ♥♥ The novella appears to have been inspired in part by Charlotte Brontë's unfinished novel Emma, the first two chapters of which were published in Cornhill Magazine in 1860, featuring a rich heiress with a mysterious past who is apparently abandoned at a boarding school. ♥♥ A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett ♥♥

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"A Little Princess" is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most loved stories. It is 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.

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. Nicholas) with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time.