About this title: A LITTLE PRINCESS is the timeless classic about Sara Crewe, daughter of a wealthy father, who is brought from India to a boarding school in England. There, due to her father's wealth, she is treated like royalty--until her father suddenly dies, and she is left penniless. She is soon treated like a scullery maid, and forced to live in a cold garret. Keeping her courage and never bitter, Sara is rescued and reinstated in riches by a long-lost friend of her father's. THE SECRET GARDEN is a story about spoiled 9-year-old Mary Lennox, who finds herself suddenly orphaned and sent to live with her ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sterling
Date Published: 03/2005
ISBN-13:9781402712753ISBN:1402712758
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780439101370ISBN:0439101379
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Great copy! Nearly perfect inside and out EXCEPT for slight edge wear. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 272 p. Scholastic Classics. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780439101370ISBN:0439101379
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 272 p. Scholastic Classics. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780679850908ISBN:0679850902
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 112 p. Stepping Stone Book Classics (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"What a different world it was back then! It was back when the word "queer" still meant strange, and to be "clever" was the number one trait that little girls wanted. Children begged on the streets and often went hungry. There were no social services, early childhood intervention, speech therapy, fostering, government programs, WIC, or food stamps. It was tough being a kid back then, especially a poor one! The children of the "large family" knew that Sara wasn't a beggar simply because she didn't talk like one. She did not have the poor person vernacular. Interesting. How would this book be different if it were written today? Would an author be as aware of the details? This was a fabulous book. I totally got lost in it, emotionally. In the end, when things started turning around, I found myself rooting for Becky more than anyone. She was treated a whole lot worse than Sara. My favorite part of this book, of any book, is when the villain gets what's coming to them. Miss Minchin was finally told off, by her sister! It was perfect!"
"This was a wonderful book, beautifully written. It doesn't get such high marks on GR for nothing. It is absolutely wonderful, and you slip right into the world of this little girl - in her good times and her bad. It is an effortless transition for the reader, even though her world is completely different from what most of us have ever experienced. It does take a chapter or two to really get into the story, but once you do - watch out. I was listening to this on my MP3 player at night when I couldn't sleep, and from about the midpoint of the novel, the story actually kept me awake. It was completely worth it though!"
"I must have read this book about a million times when I was younger. I think what I liked best about it was the descriptions of the clothes and the people and especially the food. I could read the chapter when the Magic happens over and over again.
That said, I can't stop thinking about something a friend of mine once said about why she preferred The Secret Garden to A Little Princess. Mary Lennox, she said, came from India a peevish unpleasant person, and by the end of the book she was a friendly happy little girl because of the garden and Colin and Dickon. But Sara Crewe doesn't change at all. Which is the point, I guess--she manages to stay true to herself despite adversity. But she's so PERFECT to start with--it's almost superhuman. She's TOO good, which is much harder to relate to. I think more people probably relate to Ermengarde, the poor fat best friend, than relate to Princess Sara.
That said, there is still something magical about the end of this book, with the Indian gentleman. I also still love the part where Miss Minchin tells Sara she has to learn French, and the French teacher is like, "She does not speak French, she IS French. Her accent is quite exquisite." :)"
"This is on of the most beautiful stories I have ever read. When I was in elementary school, I loved the movie so much and bought the book at a book fair. However, the words were too much for me at that age and I set it aside. This is my first time reading it and it was magical. At first, the character Sara Crewe annoyed me ever-so-slightly by being too perfect. Could a girl that young seriously be fluent in at least 3 languages? As well as being top student in all of her other studies? It was a little much. But the more I read about her and the more Burnett let us in on the way Sara thought, the more I began to understand and like her. She is an imaginitive and charitable girl who is put under the most terrible adversities. Even in the depths of her problems, she reaches out to others (both worse and better off than herself) selflessly. I don't know if someone could be as selfless as she is... but this book made me feel like someone could be like that and gives me the will to want to be like her. It is a story I would recommend parents to read to their children."
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