Sara Crewe is an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies.

She is devastated when her loving father dies. After the death of the father, now she is penniless and banished to a room in the attic.

Sara is now demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant.

How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.