Sara Crewe arrives at a London boarding school rich and adored, then loses everything overnight and has to survive on imagination alone. Frances Hodgson Burnett gives her a fierce, private inner life that eight to twelve year olds recognise instantly, and the chapters build in satisfying, cliffhanger-shaped units for reading in instalments.
Chapters
A long one: read it a chapter a night.
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