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

Thursday's Child (Margaret Thursday #1) Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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

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It gives your memory a strange jolt to see books from when you were 8,9,10.

Re-read. An old favorite. Set towards the end of Victoria's reign, this is the story of Margaret Thursday, a foundling. The vicar who found her gave her that surname since she was found on Thursday. He also found her a home with two local spinster sisters. But now that they are growing older, and no money arrives for Margaret this year, new arrangements must be made. So she is sent to an orphanage, where she meets the Beresford family. Adventures ensue. The story is very much character-driven as

It started out really good but about halfway through went downhill. Skimmed to end. Meh.

Such a sweet book where so much happens. An absolute treasure.

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

It's a good story. The parallel between the Beresford children and Little Lord Fauntleroy was pretty engaging. I feel like Streatfeild really missed a chance to tell us the most interesting story of all: the mystery behind Margaret's "three of everything of the best quality" and the fifty-two pounds every Christmas in the garden. I wonder if those questions get addressed in a sequel, though I'm not sure I was captured enough to go look.

This was a re-read of a childhood favorite. I went hunting for a copy of it because I thought I remembered it being thrilling, and thought my kids would enjoy it as a read aloud. Well, I couldn't wait long enough to read it to my kids. Rereading it as an adult, I found the plot a little more thin than I remembered, but it was a fantastic soap opera for kids. Mean orphanages, children with mysterious births, coincidences-- it has it all! It is definitely a product of its time, in that children of