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(0)Noel Streatfeild
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join the unforgettable heroine Margaret Thursday as she makes her way from an orphanage to the stage in this ebook collection containing the classic novels Thursday's Child and Far to Go by Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes. Margaret Thursday was named after the day she was found on the church steps as a baby. But she isn't really an orphan – each year a bag of gold coins is left at the church for her keep. However, when Margaret...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Thursday was named after the day she was found on the church steps as a baby. But she isn't really an orphan - each year a bag of gold coins is left at the church for her keep. However, when Margaret is eleven years old, the money suddenly stops and her guardians have no choice but to send her away to an orphanage.The orphanage is worse than they could have imagined. The children are poorly treated and barely fed, and fearless Margaret soon...
3) Far to go
Author
Series
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Thursday, an orphan, auditions for a role in a play durin g the early twentieth century.Margaret Thursday, the heroine of Thursday's Child, becomes a huge success on the London stage. But her old enemy is close on her heels, determined to carry out her revenge...Margaret felt a glow of excitement as she read the advertisement: Wanted: A clever girl to appear eleven. Appointment, write to Thomas Smith, The Dolphin Theatre. In a trice it was...
5) Ballet shoes
Author
Series
Shoes volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
Author
Series
Shoes volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Harriet Johnson goes ice-skating to strengthen her legs after an illness, befriends Lalla, the orphaned daughter of a great figure skating star, and finds encouragement to become a champion.
Author
Series
Shoes volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
10) Gemma
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Accustomed to a glamorous life as a famous young movie star, eleven-year-old Gemma is horrified when, because of her mother's film career, she is sent to live with her "dull" and unknown cousins in a small industrial town.
11) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Three orphans raised by the niece of an eccentric explorer in 1930s London aspire to careers on the stage and in the theater.