A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines she's a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school. It is an expanded version of the short story Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's. The full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time. Fiction: Juvenile & Young Adult