Noel Streatfeild

Three orphans are forced to enter a theater school by their grandmother, a famous actress. Unable to pay the tuition, they are given scholarships from the now-grown orphans from Ballet Shoes. Will they be able to live up to their patrons’ legacies? The children are ready to run away—until they discover their hidden talents.

Accustomed to a glamorous life as a famous young movie star, eleven-year-old Gemma is horrified when, because of her mother's film career, she is sent to live with her "dull" and unknown cousins in a small industrial town.

A happy and loving family of varied capacities and ambitions work to find opportunities to fulfil their dreams in spite of limitations of their circumstances. When the children of Reverend Bell--Paul, Jane, Angus, and Ginny--find their plans for a summer holiday threatened they search for ways to earn money to help their parents.

The stories of three American women span sixty years of history and takes readers from Fran, who triumphed over tragedy to forge an empire, to Debbie, who fights a twenty-year battle for justice.

Rather than stay with a new family, three young evacuees try to return to their home in London after their country host dies suddenly.

A dance teacher explains ballet techniques to her young pupils and includes in the lessons the history of ballet, stories of the great dancers, and discussions of famous ballets.

Gemma finds the transition from being a glamorous child movie star to working as a student at a school for the performing arts requires hard work, but she also enthusiastically joins her cousins in honing their musical, dancing, and acting talents for a grand competition on television.

The fourth and last book in Noel Streatfeild's lightly fictionalized set of memoirs, Beyond the Vicarage describes the tail end of her acting career, the launching of her first books, her war work in London, and touches upon the changes that inter-war years bring to her family, particularly her mother.

When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town she grew up in she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, life and loves but, alongside them, painful memories; a past she couldn't allow to destroy her. So when an old classmate appears in London asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter, long buried memories resurface. But when tragedy strikes, Frieda has no choice but to return home and confront her past. And monsters no one else believes are real. Through a fog of alibis, conflicting accounts, hidden agendas and questionable alibis, Frieda can trust no one in trying to piece together the shocking truth, past and present.

As her cousins find success singing and dancing on the stage, Gemma wins a coveted acting role in a local theatre production but may have to give it up when her mother makes a startling announcement.

An English family's life is disrupted when the father is injured in a serious car accident. Everything goes from bad to worse until the youngest boy unexpectedly inherits a house.

An adventurous summer with four children visiting their eccentric aunt in the Irish countryside.

A brief survey of the history and development of footwear. Examines the influence of shoes on tradition and legend; shows how shoe styles reveal much about their owners; and discusses the shoemaker and his trade.

Discusses the origins and history of opera, collaboration of composers, librettists, and orchestras, and the production of operas. Highlights several well-known operas.

Four foundlings, left on a TV star's doorstep one Christmas morning, grow up amid the publicity of the television world and show that they can each find a future in the industry

In 1920s England, Vicky becomes an actress. The third book in Streatfeild's barely-fictionalized four-book autobiography.

Records the flow of the quiet waterway known as "Old Father Thames," describing the English landscape through which it passes and events which have made history on the river.

Curtain Up is a children's novel about a theatrical family by British author Noel Streatfeild. It was first published in 1944. To remind potential readers of Streatfeild's highly successful first novel, Ballet Shoes, it is often retitled Theatre Shoes, or Theater Shoes in the US. A number of Streatfeild's children's novels have undergone similar retitling. (Read more in Wikipedia).