A Little Princess

A young girl, all but a princess in both wealth and the pureness of her heart, is orphaned while at boarding school and yet – even in her darkest hours – never ceases in her kindness to others or her hope in the goodness of life. This is the heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story A Little Princess, first published in novel form in 1905. Sarah Crewe’s is faced with the worst tragedy that can befall an 11-year-old, yet she rises to every instance of hardship with a gracious sweetness from which readers young and old alike can learn.