A Little Princess
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The most interesting book I read recently is “A Little Princess”. Little Princess is called Sara Crewe; she is a student at Miss Minchin’s fancy boarding school. When her rich father dies; she’s left without a penny .Now Sara lives in the attic and works for crusts of bread. Only magic could make her A Little Princess!
Sara Crewe was born in India .Her father was so rich and her mother died when she was born. Sara left India and traveled to London when she was seven years old because India was much too hot for children and was not good for their health. In England, the weather was milder than in India the children could go to good school and they would learn how to stand on their own two feet so that that’s why Sara was sent to London. Sara went to Miss Minchin School for young ladies, Miss Minchin looked unfriendly. After that, captain Crewe left England and Sara has spent every last minute with him. Sara began her life at Miss Minchin’s school. She had a French maid named Mariette who helped Sara to put on her uniform. The oldest girl in school was called Lavinia. She hated Sara because of her popularity. Sara was so helpful and she helped her friend “Ermengrade” to study French because she had troubles with her French lessons. At first, Miss Minchin pretended that she loved Sara Crewe because she wants her money. Sara was loved among her friends, she used to tell them stories at night and all friends loved her stories. One day, captain Crewe was so sick because he bought a land in which he spent all his money because he expected that there were diamonds in this land but to his bad luck there was no any diamonds. At this time, it was Sara’s birthday. Miss Minchin made a large party for Sara and she spent a lot of money to make this party. While Sara and her friends were enjoying their time in the party, a letter came. There was bad news in this letter and this news were that captain Crewe died and he did not leave any penny to his daughter Sara. Miss Minchin has gone mad when she heard this news because she had spent a lot of money in this party, so she decided that Sara should work to pay her that money. She ordered Sara to take off her new fancy dress and wore a black, torn clothes and she told her to clean the house every day and sleep in the attic. Miss Minchin made Sara work hardly to neat the house and she was not kind to her. There was a friend of captain Crewe who was looking for Sara to take care of her and