A Little Princess

A Little Princess was one of the books I most enjoyed reading. It tells the story of a little girl, who was born in India, called Sara Crew. She's the daughter of a wealthy soldier, who sends her to a boarding school for girls, in London. She's uncommonly creative and also a very intelligent  girl. She reads many books and she creates many stories from her head. She likes pretending things on her own, as if she were a character in the tales she imagines. At school, she gets to know some good friends like Ermengarde, who becomes her best friend, Lottie, a motherless little girl that Sara "adopts", and Becky, the scullery maid. But when her father gets involved in the exploration of some diamond mines with a friend, he thinks it can make them much richer. But they don't find any diamond and his friend runs away. As they had put all of their money in the diamond mines, they got bankrupted, and Captain Crew was so weakened by losing his money and his friend, that he could not resist to the brain fever he got and he died. Then, when the disdainful Miss Minchin, the owner of the school, receives this message, she shows all of her cruelty and coldness by making Sara a scullery maid like Becky.

But Sara was as strong as she could be and everytime she was told to do something or when the rude cook yelled at her, she didn't complain and did the best she could do. Even in the worst situations, she remains as proud and unwavering and imaginative as ever, proving to all that she is, as the title says, "a little princess".

One of the reasons for I have liked this book so much is that the story is very emotional. I had already watched the movie when I was a kid, but the book was more surprising.

At first sight, it might seem this is a simple book for children, but the lessons you take from it are really deep and you'll carry them for all of your life.