Sal Gilbert and Joe Westwere brought up together ina London Children’s Homea Sal wanted to an opera singer like her late father but something awful had happened to her singing voice and now it could shatter glass.
Anna Small left virtually penniless after the death of her father was given a job by a distant relative, John Trelawney, cataloguing the books in the library of his home, the bleak forbidding Ravenscrag Towers. Also living there was John’s daughter a cripple confined to bed and hated by her father.
Hannah Watson parents were killed in a car crash just before buying their dream house. Afterwards Hannah stays with the Hoppers who ended up buying the house instead. She felt resentful of this and was determined to put a cloud on their happiness
Little Annie Rooney was originally a 1920s comic strip for King Features Syndicate , about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero.
In the 1880s, many of the poorest people in Paris, lived in a a shanty town near Montmartre, until one dreadful day when the wooden shanties burned down. Then the folk had to struggle to earn food and shelter. Some were mere children, like Sparrow and her crippled brother, Marcel. Her only hope to was to make money with her music, but it was not going to be easy for her.
Heather Anderson’s parent’s were killed in an accident, while on a job hunting visit to Cliffmore New Town. Many sympathetic townspeople wrote to the children’s home offering lonely Heather a new home, but she’s been unable to fit in happily with any of them.
Orphan Jemma Ward, was taken in by her older brother and sister, but then she found out the only reason they had taken her in, was to meet the condition in their Uncle’s will to inherit his home.
The only enemy circus orphan Lara Starr had at Gormans Circus where she had been brought up since the death of her parents (the flying starrs) was trapeze girl Mandy. She knew that the circus clown Zappo was secretly training Lara on trapeze which was forbidden. She also knew Lara was good enough to take over from her
When wealthy Mrs Richmond lost all her money, Wanda Simmons left the orphanage to help the woman who had wanted to adopt her. Mrs Richmond took a job in the Sports’ Department of a Jorge store but she became very angry when Wanda saw her demonstrating a tennis stroke to a customer.
When all the children of the farming village of Kirkwood are orphaned by a chartered plane crash, sixteen-year-old Anne Reeves persuades the authorities to grant a trial period to see if the children can look after themselves. Miss Crow, a county official who is against the project, is about to visit the village — and young Tommy Dawson has run away. Anne searches for him on horseback.
