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 is eleven years old, the money suddenly stops and her guardians have no choice but to send her away to an orphanage. This is where Margaret's story really begins, taking her and her new friends from orphanage to canal boat and eventually to the theatre. But Margaret will have to outwit her archenemy, the cruel matron of the orphanage, at every turn… Competition: Ballet;Circus;Theatre;Party;Skating;Shoes;White Boots;Street Child;The Swish of the Curtain;Oliver Twist;The Borrowers;What Katy Did;A Little Princess;. by Noel Streatfeild;Pamela Brown;Berlie Doherty;Mary Norton;Frances Hodgson-Burnett;Joan Aiken;Susan Coolidge

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