A Little Princess

Content Ratings

No Romance

There is no romantic content; Sara's relationships are based on friendship and kindness.

Moderate Themes

Sara experiences the traumatic loss of her father, sudden poverty, and sustained psychological and physical abuse from an authority figure; she clings to her imagination and dignity as survival mechanisms; themes of class inequality, cruelty, resilience, and the power of kindness are central.

Moderate Violence

Sara is subjected to emotional and physical cruelty by the headmistress Miss Minchin, including being forced to work as a servant, deprived of food, and housed in a freezing attic; a younger child is slapped; the cruelty is significant and sustained.

Synopsis

Sara Crewe, a wealthy and beloved student at a London boarding school, is suddenly orphaned and penniless when her father dies, and must endure cruelty and deprivation as a servant in the same school. A classic story of resilience, imagination, and the triumph of goodness and dignity over cruelty.