Shelf Life

In this novel Sara Crewe lives in India with her widowed father, since her father is a captain in the British army he is very wealthy and treats Sara as if she was a princess. As Sara grows and the first world war intensifies her father must leave to fight, so he sends her to Miss Minchin’s London boarding school. When Sara arrives she is treated like a real princess and is pampered with the best. She has the best room in the boarding house, her own personal maid, and her own personal carriage. Even with these luxuries she is still a sensible little girl who is kind and loves to help her classmates as well as the boarding house maid, little Becky. As more time passes Sara likes to live in the boarding house, having made many friends because of her story telling ability. On Sara’s birthday, the whole house is decorated and a very grand cake is made especially for her, yet all good times must end. That same moment when Sara has just blown the candle on her birthday cake, her father’s accountant arrives at the boarding house and give the news to, Miss Minchin and Sara, that her father has died and that the government is taking over her money. Sara is left penniless and Miss Minchin, a greedy bitter woman, enslaves Sara and turns her into a servant girl. Now Sara must live with Becky in the attic and must serve the table she once ate at. Will someone ever help her? Will she have to work for the slave driver, Miss Minchin for the rest of her life? Read this magnificent book and find out who saves her.

By Juana Janet Villegas