But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world... (quotation from a back cover)
While I was reading the story, I guessed it was like an anti Cinderella story at first, but it is not in the end. she is a good girl from the begining to the end of the story though she loses all things she had. In even a terrible situation, she continues to try to become a brave girl for her father. So, a little girl Sara is described with many negative words in the story like poor, cold and sad, but she do not give up keeping her dream.
I want to recommend you to read this book when you are dispirited. She may make you fine.
Book Review
Frances Hodgson Burnett,(2000) A Little Princess, Oxford University Press, Oxford