Publisher's Synopsis
"Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow."
The book Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by Frances Burnett, the plot takes place in a shabby New York City side street in the mid-1880s where a young boy transforms his hard-hearted aristocratic grandfather into a caring and charitable old man.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a prominent British-American playwright and novelist. She is best known for the three children's novels A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden.
