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1) Far To Go
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Margaret Thursday, the unforgettable heroine of Thursday's Child stars in this classic children's adventure from Noel Streatfeild, the beloved author of Ballet Shoes. When Margaret Thursday lands a role as a child actress at a well-known London theatre, becoming famous almost overnight, news of her success reaches her bitter enemy, the matron of her old orphanage. Margaret knows that Matron is set on revenge, but she keeps her head held high, focusing...
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A thrilling, classic children's adventure with a courageous heroine, from 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. The orphanage is...
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Shoes volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1945
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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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.
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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...
5) Ballet shoes
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Shoes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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.
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Shoes volume 7
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English
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On her first day at the ice skating rink, frail Harriet Johnson meets orphaned Lalla Moore whose wealthy aunt wants her to become a skating champion. The girls quickly become fast friends until they seem to be heading in two different directions: as Lalla's interest in skating starts to fade, Harriet's natural talents begin to emerge.
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Shoes volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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After her mother's death, Rachel and her adopted sister Hilary are taken in by Aunt Cora, who runs a dancing school where Rachel's spoiled cousin Dulcie is the star pupil.
8) Party shoes
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
10) The Bell family
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Meet the Bell family who live in the vicarage at St. Mark's. There is father who is a reverend, mom, and the children Paul, Jane, Ginnie, Angus, and the dog Esau. Follow their lives from the highs and lows and all the laughter in between.
14) Ballet shoes
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Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Three orphans raised by the niece of an eccentric explorer in 1930s London aspire to careers on the stage and in the theater.
16) Clothes-Pegs
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English
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"Do you live permanently in yellow evening frocks and court gowns, or have you anything else?"
Annabel laughed shakily.
"Of course. My own clothes."
"Then go and put them on. Lovely ladies who fall over their trains need cocktails to restore them. And that's just what I'm going to take you to have."
Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her family's finances. When one of the "mannequins" employed...