A Little Princess (1995)
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth. based on novel or book, parent child relationship, boarding school, servant, private school, female friendship, school, little girl, orphan, class differences, india, schoolgirl, presumed dead, attic, magic realism, interracial friendship, african american servant