Sent to an English boarding school from her home in India, privileged Sara Crewe becomes a show pupil – a “little princess” with luxuries bestowed upon her because of her father’s wealth. But when her father dies, Sara’s whole life is turned upside down as she is transformed from princess to pauper. Abused by Miss Minchin, the spiteful headmistress who treats her like a slave, Sara finds protection in her imagination and sisterly love in her friend Becky. As she struggles to hold on to the memory of her beloved father, Sara learns that strength doesn’t come from wealth – it comes from love. After all, real little princesses are made with kindness.

Product Details

Series

Scholastic Classics

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407172699

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

October 5th, 2017

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 6.0; Middle years; 11.0 points

Other details

272 pages

Condition

New

Series

Scholastic Classics

Author/Illustrator

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester but when her father died Frances’s mother emigrated with her sons and daughters to Tennessee in the United States. Life there was harsh and they were quite poor but the young Frances would entertain herself and her siblings with stories. And then in 1868, at the age of eighteen, she went out with her sister to pick grapes and made enough money from that job to buy paper and stamps. She wrote out a romantic tale and sent it off to a magazine. Marvellously, her story was accepted and from that day forward she became the breadwinner in her family, writing up to six stories a month.

When she married a man called Swan Burnett in 1872, she kept up her writing. Frances’s two sons, Lionel and Vivian, would sleep beneath her desk as toddlers. It was unusual for a woman to earn her own money and support her family in the way that Frances did so people in nineteenth-century England and America were very surprised. Many newspapers and magazines were interested in her private life and wrote about her, much like they do about celebrities today.

In 1890, something very sad happened and Frances‘s son, Lionel, died at the age of sixteen. When she wrote about Colin in The Secret Garden Frances might have been thinking about her own son and wishing that his sickness could have been cured. Her other son, Vivian, lived and Frances once made him a real velvet suit. The sight of him in his smart suit inspired her to write her book Little Lord Fauntleroy.

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trixiebell
on 30 April 2020

I am reading this book and apart from lies I loved it . I have read the book before in a shorter way but I just wounder why not read it again and when i read the book again it is feeling I never read it before it is definitely amazing and over top quality

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