The Secret Garden is the story of lonely Mary Lennox and her bedridden cousin Colin who find friendship and health as they restore a forgotten garden to its former glory. In A Little Princess lively and imaginative Sara Crewe is a model pupil at boarding school until her father's death leaves her a penniless orphan forced into servitude. Her fortunes change when gifts start to appear in her room, and she discovers that an old friend of her father has been searching for her in order to restore her fortunes.