When Sara Crewe, a young girl used to being treated like a princess at home, joins an English boarding school, she finds it difficult to adjust to her new surroundings. Sara, however, can imagine wonderful things and is a master storyteller. Her talents win her friends at school. But disaster strikes and her life is turned upside down. She is transformed from being a princess to a pauper and now must make her living by running errands for the cook. How does Princess Sara cope with the change in her life? Will she be strong enough to overcome her situation?
A Little Princess is the heart-warming story of a young girl’s belief in herself and her marvellous gift of imagination with which she can soar past anything.
About the Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett, American-English novelist and playwright, was born on 24 November 1849 in Manchester, England. She began to write in her teens in order to support her family. She is best known for her three children’s novels, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, publishing novels including Through One Administration (1883) and A Lady of Quality (1886). She moved to America in the early 1900s and became its citizen. She died on 29 November 1914.