A Little Princess

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Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became 'show pupil' - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappear

來自印度的富家女孩莎拉，七歲時被父親送到倫敦的寄宿學校，雖然離鄉背井，但她用想像力和溫柔贏得大家的喜愛。可是在十一歲生日那天，父親的噩耗傳來，莎拉瞬間失去金錢與依靠。從富裕到貧困，莎拉如何憑藉勇氣與善良，走過人生的考驗？Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin’s school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world...

家境富裕的莎拉被父親送到寄宿學校，在學校享有公主般的待遇，然而，原本衣食無虞的生活，卻隨著爸爸的意外過世產生變化，頓時失去了天之驕女的地位，一夕之間從公主淪為女傭，失去親人與財富的莎拉，能否擺脫悲慘的命運，挺身迎向未來？又有什麼樣的奇蹟，令莎拉重拾幸福呢？

＊美國國家教育委員會選為「教師百大選書」「公主」不僅僅是個頭銜，也是一種態度。作一個堅強的女孩，勇敢面對生活每一個內心強大的女孩都是公主家境富有的莎拉˙克魯從小隨著父親在印度長大，七歲那年，父親將他帶回倫敦就讀著名的女子寄宿學校，在寄宿學校裡，莎拉身邊環繞著華麗的衣裳、美麗的洋娃娃以及對她奉承巴結的校長，過著公主般的生活。但是，隨著父親的離世，她在學校裡的地位受到了毀滅性的打擊。流離失所，窮困潦倒

永遠的「小公主」 莎拉原本是一位集萬千寵愛於一身的「小公主」，入學初期很受校長歡迎，但隨著父親的去世，變成無人照顧的孤兒後，受到校長刻薄、冷淡的對待，開始過著悲慘艱苦的生活，淪為一文不值的小女傭。 她被趕到破舊的閣樓裡，每天吃不飽、穿不暖，還要做許多粗重的工作。閣樓裡的老鼠成了她的好朋友，巴士底監獄的悲慘故事成了她和女傭朋友的