11 Lessons We've Learned From Young Heroines in Literature

Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess is about the rags-to-riches life of 10-year-old Sara Crewe, who despite being mistreated and forced into servitude by a cruel headmistress after her father dies, manages to stay kind, polite, and imaginative.

Quoted: "If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."