Recently arrived at her uncle's estate, orphaned Mary Lennox is spoiled, sickly, and certain she won't enjoy living there. Then she discovers the arched doorway into an overgrown garden, shut up since the death of her aunt ten years earlier.
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty and at the mercy of a cold-hearted school mistress when her father dies, but she continues to believe in her own self worth and is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic story of Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, who is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a kind mysterious benefactor.