During the German occupation of Holland, Marisa, a little circus star, stays on at the circus after it is closed by the German soldiers. Marisa spends her time training her doves in a circus act and hiding a British agent, Jeff Carson.
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During the Second World War, Laura Starr, is serving her country with the Wrens, the women’s branch of the Royal Navy. Laura is an intelligent girl with a love for the sea, Hilda Crabbe a rich snobbish girl joins the same time as Laura and proceeds to make her life difficult.
Starr of the Wrens – Judy: #41 (22 October 1960) – #75 (17 June 1961)
In Britain, in the year 1940, after her father was lost a sea Nancy Nelson, went to live at Morvel Mansion, along with several evacuees. The manor house was really an old people’s home and there was often trouble between the young and the old. Later Nancy becomes convinced her father is actually alive. She is proven right but it appears her father is working for the Germans. Despite the evidence Nancy refuses to believe her father is a traitor.
Early in the Second World War, Petra, a gipsy girl, was doing a circus act in France with her performing dogs, Leo, Pip and Tiki. When the Germans overran France the circus was destroyed, and Petra and her dogs became refugees. Helping a wounded British pilot, she makes contact with the French Resistance.
During the Second World War, Simone, an orphan, arrived in a French village. Because of her innocent, trusting nature, Simone soon became accepted in the village, although many resented her friendliness with the invading Germans. But Simone was not as simple as she appeared to be and was secretly working with the Resistance.
During World War II the Japanese invade Malaya and children of the poor mission school are captured. Della Mornay pretends to work for the Japanese while secretly helping the prisoners, who think she is a traitor. When the war ends Della is thrown into a pen with the Japanese guards. With the help of one girl Sylvia and Lim a British agent they manage to get message to British soldiers. Colonel Mornay, Della’s father arrives and tells the girls that Della had been working for the British all along.
Wilhelmina Brouwer lives in Holland during World War II. Her father has been imprisoned by the Germans, leaving Willi in charge of the precious blue tulips he took years to develop.
When the Nazis seize their mother in World War II, the three Balicki children, Ruth, Edek, and Bronia have to fend for themselves in occupied Poland. They hope to find their parents again and they are helped by an orphan, Jan.
When the German Army over ran Holland in 1940, the Germans began an intensive search for fourteen- year-old Pat Piper. Inside her belt, Pat was carrying a secret formula which the Germans desperately wanted. Pat’s mission was to take the formula to London, and on her travels she took some refugee children into her care. In Antwerp, the children were given a horse, Dapple, and a caravan with instructions to go to Paris where they would he helped on their journey to England. On the road to Paris, Pat overheard plans to capture and kill Dapple and she decided that they would have to leave him behind in the hope that he would find a good home.
IN the year 1940, Joan Clark was staying with her French relations, the Chapelles, in the Vosges district. Joan’s parents were on a scientific survey in the jungles of South America. War with Germany been declared the previous autumn, after Joan had begun her stay but in France there had been little fighting. While the Chapelles worried about the was, Joan and her cousin Monique were more preoccupied with the birth of a foal. But then the war comes closer to home whice leads Joan, Monique along with the mare Astra and foal, Orion on a long journey.
