Author: noelstreatfeild

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 … 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,…