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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

CHAPTER 1

Sara

CHAPTER 2

Making New Friends

CHAPTER 3

Her Royal Highness

CHAPTER 4

The Change

CHAPTER 5

Proud Soldiers Don’t Complain

CHAPTER 6

The Visitors

CHAPTER 7

The Little Girl Who Was Not a Beggar

CHAPTER 8

The Other Side of the Wall

CHAPTER 9

What Would a Princess Do?

CHAPTER 10

The Grand Feast

CHAPTER 11

The Magic

CHAPTER 12

Lost and Found

What Do You Think?