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Title: A Little Princess
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Genre: YA, Classics
Rating: 7/10
# pages: Audiobook
Date read: February, 2007
Summary: The novel tells of the troubles of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to an oppressive London boarding school during her father's campaign in India. Thanks to Capt. Crewe's money, Sara is treated as a little princess until, one day, word comes of her father's tragic death. Miss Minchin, the school's greedy headmistress, wastes no time in putting the now-penniless Sara to work for her room and board. It is only through the friendship of two other girls, her own resolute nature, and some astonishing luck that Sara eventually finds her way back to happiness. (Summary from wikipedia.org)
Review: I'd seen the movie as a child, and remembered it being a cute story, so decided to check out the book. Very cute indeed, and a lot less annoyingly sugar-sweet than I'd feared ;) But of course totally unrealistic where all good people are oh-so-good and all evil people are oh-so-evil, except for the misunderstood younger sister who finally speaks up against her older sister, and the oh-so-good people get their reward in the end and the oh-so-evil people are punished ;-). Ah well, we all need a read like that once in awhile.
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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Genre: YA, Classics
Rating: 7/10
# pages: Audiobook
Date read: February, 2007
Summary: The novel tells of the troubles of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to an oppressive London boarding school during her father's campaign in India. Thanks to Capt. Crewe's money, Sara is treated as a little princess until, one day, word comes of her father's tragic death. Miss Minchin, the school's greedy headmistress, wastes no time in putting the now-penniless Sara to work for her room and board. It is only through the friendship of two other girls, her own resolute nature, and some astonishing luck that Sara eventually finds her way back to happiness. (Summary from wikipedia.org)
Review: I'd seen the movie as a child, and remembered it being a cute story, so decided to check out the book. Very cute indeed, and a lot less annoyingly sugar-sweet than I'd feared ;) But of course totally unrealistic where all good people are oh-so-good and all evil people are oh-so-evil, except for the misunderstood younger sister who finally speaks up against her older sister, and the oh-so-good people get their reward in the end and the oh-so-evil people are punished ;-). Ah well, we all need a read like that once in awhile.
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