Scholastic Classics: A Little Princess

Young Sara Crewe, born in India, is brought by her father to Miss Minchin's boarding school in London, where his wealth ensures she is treated like a princess. After her father's death leaves her penniless however, the kind and gentle girl is cruelly used by her mistress as a servant and a drudge, until a mysterious benefactor begins to turn Sara's fortunes around. Holly Webb, author of the sequel novel The Princess and the Suffragette, provides the introduction for this edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1905 classic for readers 8 to 12, which joins The Secret Garden as one of the most popular and widely read children's novels of all time.