Sara Crewe is a clever, imaginative girl with a generous heart and a gift for storytelling. The cherished daughter of a wealthy British officer in India, she arrives in London to attend Miss Minchin's fashionable boarding school, where her father's fortune earns her the finest room, fine dresses, and the status of the school's star pupil. Sara wears it all gracefully, befriending the overlooked and treating everyone with kindness, though the cold headmistress's favor seems to rest entirely on her wealth. Burnett's cherished 1905 novel opens in comfort and warmth, with everything Sara enjoys quietly resting on a father far across the world.