New Releases by Noel Streatfeild

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?

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?

Three orphan girls. A pair of pink slippers. A lifetime in the spotlight. Read the classic that has captivated generations! A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME Pauline, Petrova, and Posy love their quiet life together. They are orphans who have been raised as sisters, and when their new family needs money, the girls want to help. They decide to join the Children''s Academy of Dancing and Stage Training to earn their keep. Each girl works hard following her dream. Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. And Petrova? She finds she''d rather be a pilot than perform a pirouette. This beautiful children''s classic is perfect for girls who love to dream about ballet, friendship, and finding their own special talents. Adult readers may remember them as the "Shoes" books from You''ve Got Mail!

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.

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.