No one knows who Margaret Thursday is, because she was found as a baby on the church steps, on a Thursday. But Margaret is sure that she is somebody, and that one day she will be famous.

Thursday's Child

Noel, Streatfeild

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Margaret Thursday grandly announced to the orphanage children, 'I'm not properly an orphan. I was found on a Thursday on the church step, with three of everything, all the very best quality.' (Occasionally Margaret's story included embroidered crowns on her clothes as well.) And each time she was asked, 'Who do you think you might be then?' she had dozens of ready replies. Whoever she was, Margaret had made herself the arch enemy of the crel matron. Soon things reached such a dreadful state that she decided to run away from St. Luke's, but not without Peter and Horatio, and her three of everything.... So the children fled in the night to become the unlikeliest leggers ever seen on a canal boat. And Margaret proved that she was a person of the very best quality....

Thursday's Child (Armada Lions)

Children's Books

Armada Lions

Once upon a time there were three little girls: Isobel, the eldest, was pretty, gentle and artistic; Louise the youngest, was sweet and talented – and then there was Vicky, the odd one out, the plain one. 
Everyone pities the poor vicar, who’s got such a difficult daughter. Vicky doesn’t work at school, she’s awkward at home, and she’s not pretty or talented like her sisters. But all is not as it seems. When Vicky grows up and her first children’s book is published to great acclaim, it is her family who are the least surprised. For the Vicky of this story if the much-loved Noel Streatfeild, and her first book was the famous Ballet Shoes. This is the story of her childhood, told in her own words. 
An autobiographical novel written by one of the twentieth century’s best-loved children’s authors.

a vicarage family: a biography of myself

Lions

Gemma and her cousins in the Robinson family put together a show business act and become an overnight sensation, but then Lydia has an accident that could mean the end of the group

Gemma And Sisters

Collins

Gemma goes from strength to strength at the drama school, but while she's so taken up with her own life, unexpected things are happening at home and in Hollywood. Her well-planned future looks as though it's about to be turned upside down. Everything is going marvellously for Gemma until her mother's announcement. She's coming home from Hollywood and Gemma will have to go to London to live with her. But how can Gemma leave Headstone when she's about to star in Romeo & Juliet? She can't just walk out on the play -- or on her wonderful co-star. And what about her cousins? All three of them have changed so much since Gemma's first appearance in their family, and Gemma has changed too from the poor little rich girl she was. Now that it's time to leave, she realises how much she's grown up; but she hadn't expected to become so attached to her "ordinary" family...

Gemma in Love

Harper Collins Childs

Ten-year-old Margaret Thursday, an orphan of turn-of-the-century England, is determined to escape from the harsh life at St. Luke's orphanage and to seek her fortune

After years of staying in strange houses in even stranger foreign cities, of travelling around the world with their famous brother Sebastian, what the Forum children want most of all is a home. So Myra, the eldest, begins "Operation Home", a plan to return to their old house in Devon - Apple Bough.

Apple Bough

Harriet must choose between her friend Lalla and her new-found love of ice-skating... "If you pass your inter-silver, I'll tell Aunt Claudia that I don't want to work with you any more." Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much good at it, until she meets Lalla Moore, a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better and better on the ice, and Lalla doesn't like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?

White Boots

When the announcement about America came, it was Jane who didn't want to go. Rachel would have to miss her first professional dancing part, and Tim wouldn't be able to have lessons from a famous pianist, but it was even worse for Jane, who would have to leave her dog behind.

The Painted Garden

The Growing Summer

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Thursday's Child

Thursday's Child (Armada Lions)

a vicarage family: a biography of myself

Gemma And Sisters

Gemma in Love

Thursday's Child

Apple Bough

White Boots

The Painted Garden

The Growing Summer