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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.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.