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After her father’s death, Sarah Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin’s boarding school in London, finds herself in poverty. Yet a mysterious benefactor steps in, rescuing the orphaned girl and altering her future at the school.
First publish date: 1994
Genre: Children's Fiction/Early Readers
Authors: Cathy East Dubowski
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