New Releases by Noel Streatfeild

Near the end of the Second World War, Selina receives a parcel from America that contains a beautiful party dress and shoes. But her excitement turns to sorrow when she realizes she''ll never have a chance to wear the beautiful dress, until she and her cousins decide to organize a pageant.

Three children, having lost their parents in an earthquake, come to England to live with their prim uncle and feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance - but her uncle forbids her to have anything do with ballet. How will she survive?

Can the friendship between Harriet, who skates for fun, and Lalla Moore, future world champion, survive the threat from Lalla''s formidable Aunt Claudia? When Harriet needs to recover after a long illness, her doctor tells her to take up skating. Although no good at it, she admires the children -- like Lalla Moore -- in the centre of the rink who seem to be able to do anything they want on the ice. And when it turns out that Lalla''s father and Harriet''s father were at school together, and they can be friends, her happiness is complete. But Lalla is only happy when she is the best, and when Harriet begins to compete on equal terms, their friendship looks like falling apart...

As her cousins find success singing and dancing on the stage, Gemma wins a coveted acting role in a local theatre production but may have to give it up when her mother makes a startling announcement.

Gemma and her cousins put together a show business act using all their talents, and quickly become a sensation, but when one has an accident, it could mean the end of the group.

Tired of being world citizens, traveling with their brother on his tours as a violin prodigy, three children plot to find a home of their own and discover careers of their own in films and ballet.

Plucked from their old home in Guernsey and sent all the way to London, the three Forbes children find themselves thrown into the peculiar world of the theatre. Their mother had come from a long line of great actors and Sorrel, Holly and Mark are expected to carry on the family tradition.

Rather than stay with a new family, three young evacuees try to return to their home in London after their country host dies.

Proud of her unusual history, a nameless orphan faces with spirit the unbearable conditions of an early twentieth-century English orphanage.

Peter and Santa run away from home, afraid of being sent to orphanages, to find their uncle who lives with a circus.

After World War I Victoria leaves the vicarage to become an actress, touring the world, but never feeling really happy, until an old actress points her to writing.

Records the flow of the quiet waterway known as "Old Father Thames," describing the English landscape through which it passes and events which have made history on the river.

The Bell children have many adjustments to make when their family moves to the edge of London for a new parish for their father.

Biografie van de Britse kinderboekenschrijfster Edith Nesbit (1858-1924).

Adolescence.

Six children travel back into England''s history.