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Original Title:	Thursday's Child
ISBN:	0440486874 (ISBN13: 9780440486879)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Margaret Thursday #1

Thursday's Child (Margaret Thursday #1)

Noel Streatfeild

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 1192 Users | 59 Reviews

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Title	:	Thursday's Child (Margaret Thursday #1)
Author	:	Noel Streatfeild
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1985 by Yearling (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Childrens. Fiction. Young Adult. Historical

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Margaret Thursday is an orphan who was found with three of everything, of the best quality, and had money left each year to keep and educate her. However one day this money runs out. Margaret is sent to an orphanage where she endures hardship, hunger, and punishment, but her ebullient personality triumphs. This is an un-put-downable book. So readable we discovered that we could walk our dog and read aloud at the same time ! Lovely descriptions of life on a barge and a travelling theatre. Learnt what 'leggers' and 'rough musikers' do, and enjoyed reading about Margaret, looking forward to the sequel.

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Ratings: 3.98 From 1192 Users | 59 Reviews

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Streatfeild seems always to drift to her strengths - quasi-orphans, kindly adults, and kids on the stage - but she does it so absolutely beautifully.Having just finished Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight, I was struck to find "rough music" in this one too.

Long. Too much of the other family of children, not enough of Margaret, and nearly nothing of the other orphans... no effort to being concise and therefore not much well-explored. A fair bit of time was spent with other adults, but then they're all dropped, discarded. Abrupt ending, but despite that I have no interest in the sequel.I don't recall any other other wicked orphanage head being punished, even any other orphans being rescued after the hero makes good her escape, so that bit was

Thursdays Child by Noel Streatfeild was my book, I think I was initially drawn to it partly because I was born on a Thursday and secondly because I had loved Ballet Shoes. Thursdays Child tells the story of Margaret who was left on Church Steps in a basket with three of everything of the very best quality and a noteThis is Margaret whom I entrust to your care. Each year fifty-two pounds will be sent for her keep and schooling. She has not yet been christenedThe year Margaret turned ten the money

My favorite book when I was a child. This is the story of a girl (Margaret) who runs a way from an orphanage in England in the early 1900s because they beat her and punish her. She works as a scullery maid until she can get her friend/(brother?) out. Then she works on a boat pushing the boats through the locks with her feet--I guess this was how they brought boats up and down channels--before becoming discovered and working as an actress in Little Lord Faunteroy. I remember this book vividly

Recommended for: All Ages, lovers of orphan storiesRating: GI've always loved orphan stories. Something about that nature of hard luck story, the hardships they endure, the adventure of running away, the "rags to riches" of some nature that so often follows, just grabs my imagination. Thursday's Child by Noel Streatfeild claims the title of my favorite orphan story. It has everything one could wish for in such a story: a spunky protagonist, intriguing secondary characters, a cruel orphanage

This is a plucky-and-reasonably-high-class-orphans-run-away-from-cruel-institution story, which is pretty much its own subgenre. I think I read it as a child (the part where they hide out on the canal boat seems really familiar) but didn't find it as memorable as her more famous "Shoes" books, even though she does work in some theater.

That's better.Having just read and been crashingly disappointed in two different "Shoes" books, I was more than ready for this classic rags-to-riches tale of the not-quite orphans and the foundling who leads them home. Jane Eyre meets Oliver Twist and The Little Princess in this wishfulfillment tale of the fiesty young foundling who knows (like the Fossils before her) that she will have to make her own way in the world, and is determined to make it big. The Countess' attitude to her servants is