A Little Princess

<p><strong><em>A Little Princess</em> is Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved classic of imagination courage and dignity under hardship.</strong> Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's London boarding school as a wealthy generous and unusual child treated like a little princess because of her father's fortune and her own natural grace. But when tragedy leaves her penniless and alone Sara is stripped of comfort status and affection forced to live as a servant in the attic of the very school where she was once admired.</p><p>What makes Sara unforgettable is not wealth but the inner life she refuses to surrender. Through hunger humiliation loneliness and cruelty she clings to kindness storytelling self-command and the belief that one can behave nobly even when the world behaves badly. First published in its expanded novel form in 1905 <em>A Little Princess</em> remains one of the great children's classics: a boarding-school story an orphan story and a deeply satisfying tale of reversal endurance and hope.</p><p>Readers who love classic children's literature orphan stories boarding-school fiction girls' books and stories of resilience will find <em>A Little Princess</em> as powerful as ever. Like <em>The Secret Garden</em> it shows Burnett's gift for turning childhood suffering into transformation without losing warmth wonder or emotional force.</p>