Cassie Martin was pleased when her aunt, Hazel Grey, a well known children’s writer, offered her a home after the sudden death of her parents. But Cassie soon started to wonder if her aunt was really sincere in her concern for her – or if she actually liked children at all!
Orphan Dolly Leonard was happy to be taken in by the wealthy Mrs. Carstairs to live in Taltree Manor, but then Mrs. Carstairs had a stroke leaving her paralysed. When her relatives arrived, they discovered their aunt was leaving her estate to Dolly , on the condition that Dolly was still living there at the time of Mrs. Carstair’s death. They were determined to get rid of Dolly before this happened.
Sophie Gray and her brother, Jack, are able to leave the orphanage they stay in when they inherit a cottage when their Great-Uncle Lional had left them. They find a secret passageway in the cottage that leads to Black Scar mine. There they help the poor boys who slave in the mine for the sinister Silas Morgan.
After a cholera epidemic, Sir Frederick Winton, a wealthy man decides to help orphan children taking them into his home. Clare Gaston is the first orphan he rescues and she becomes responsible for supervising the other children.
Heidi a young Swiss orphan lives with her grandfather on top of the mountain Alm. While the villagers think of him as an ogre, Heidi has seen the kinder side of him. She is happy living with him until her aunt comes to take her away and be a companion with an invalid girl Clara.
Lili Monette, grew up in the circus and is a skilled trick rider. Then after her mother dies in a tragic trapeze accident, the circus owner Max Maynard, wanted her to take her mother’s place doing the dangerous leap of death stunt. Maynard manipulates Lili, by promising to give her closest friend Pipo, the clown, his job back if she does the stunt. She does not know that he had got rid of Pipo in the first place by telling him if he stayed away from the circus he wouldn’t make Lili do the trapeze. Meanwhile the fortune teller foretells death in the cards, and her trapeze partner Felix tries to persuade Maynard not to go through with his plan.
Lili returns in a sequel Star of the Circus
Orphan Kate Nixon was well cared for by her kind Aunt Rose, but when the wealthy Waltons moved to the district, selfish Kate befriended Julie Walton with the idea of getting herself adopted by them and sharing their luxurious life-style.
Linda Harris, an orphan, had been left Welcome House, as she had named it, in the will of an old gentleman. She had quickly become one of the most popular people in Bank Street because of her ready smile, her warm heart, and her willingness to help anyone in need.
After being injured in an accident, orphan Jo Ashton was given a new lease of life by Dr Mabe, who placed his invention, the ” Increased Reflex and Intelligence Stimulator “, in her brain. The stimulator. known as ” Iris ” for short, gave Jo super-human strength and intelligence. When Dr Mabe decided to tell the world about his miracle patient. Jo realised that the Welfare Authorities would discover she was an orphan, and put her in a home—so she ran away.
Daisy March, a fourteen-year-old year-old orphan, who lived at Sunnyvale Children’s Home, had been abandoned as a baby, and she got her name because she was found in March with a daisy chain round her neck. It was discovered that Daisy’s name had never been registered, so she decided to choose her own. She had found, however, that living up to the meaning of the names she had chosen was not very easy.
