Little Princess (Version 3)

When seven-year-old Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies in London, she brings with her an extravagant wardrobe, a pocket full of diamonds, and a father who adores her. She is everything the other pupils are not: wealthy, imaginative, and generous to a fault. Sara spins tales to captivate her classmates, treats the smallest maid with the same courtesy as a duchess, and transforms the school into a kingdom of her own making. But on her eleventh birthday, the telegram arrives: her father has died penniless, and she is now utterly alone in the world. Miss Minchin's kindness curdles into cruelty overnight. Sara is stripped of her possessions, forced to sleep in the attic, and made to work as a servant for the very girls who once envied her. What saves her is not a fairy godmother but something far more powerful: her own irrepressible imagination and the stubborn decision to remain kind in a world that has rewarded her cruelty. This is a story about what happens when everything is taken away and you discover that wealth was never what made you rich.