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Description
Sara Crewe was best friends with her father, a captain. They always walked around hand in hand, and her father would give little Sara her heart's desires. Then one day Sara's father drops her off at old Miss Minchin's boarding school in London. There she is spoiled with her own room, with... read more
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Cast of Characters/Important People
- Sara Crewe: Add a description of this character.
- Miss Minchin: She pretended to like Sara Crewe. Oh, how she pretended in order to get money from Sara's rich father. She was like a brick, hard on the outside, hard on the inside. But inside how she hated the way Sara wondered and smiled and was different from the other girls. She pretended from the minuted she stepped into the boarding school, and was terrified when Sara was suddenly poor and left with no money to give to her. Oh, how she was greedy. Every action she makes in the book makes your skin crawl and your eyes glare in anger.
- Lavinia
- Becky
- Peter
- Ermengarde
- Lottie
- Miss Amelia
- Captain Crewe: Sara's father.
- Ram Dass
- Jessie
Memorable Quotes
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“My mamma says that way of hers of pretending things is silly. She says she will grow up eccentric”
Lavinia -
“I suppose she thinks she could be a princess if she was a beggar. Let us begin to call her 'Your Royal Highness'.”
Lavinia -
“It's true. Sometimes I do pretend I'm a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”
Sara -
“There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.”
Sara -
“It's all very well to suppose things if you have everything. Could you suppose and pretend if you were a beggar and lived in a garret?”
Lavinia
First Sentence
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gags as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father, and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
Table of Contents
1. Sara
2. A French lesson
3. Ermengarde
4. Lottie
5. Becky
6. The diamond mines
7. The diamond mines again
8. In the artic
9. Melchisedec
10. The Indian gentleman
11. Ram Dass
12. The other side of the wall
13. One of the populace
14. What Melchisedec heard and saw
15. The magic
16. The visitor
17. It is the child!
18. I tried not to be
19. Anne
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