As she struggles to hold on to the memory of her beloved father, Sara learns that strength doesn’t come from wealth – it comes from love.

Furthermore, the previously wealthy captain has lost his entire fortune, investing in a friend's diamond mines.Children will love adding stickers to the pages of this colourful sticker book to help her play card tricks with the Prime Minister, make balloon animals with the Admiral and pull a rabbit out of a hat with the Gardener. He gives her back her half of the "bad investment," which in the end turned out to be worth many times more than he and her father had anticipated, and takes her as his ward.

Carrisford, her late father's friend, and the diamond mine they both invested in was not a failure but a success. Four years for a wild rat is a good run, and it's established that he had a family of little Melchisedecs to carry on his legacy. This is a stroke of luck, as Sara’s father dies without a penny to his name, leaving Sara equally penniless. Mistaken For Destitute: Little Donald Carmichael gives Sara a sixpence, thinking she is a beggar, but his sisters convince him she isn't, since she doesn't speak like someone from the streets and since she didn't react as a beggar would have. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.She loves her dear father so much, but he has to go to India and leaves Sara in a boarding school for young girls.