gypsies

Thirteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their Roma friends Neel and Tomik are surprised by revelations about Dee, Kit, and Petra's father as they face Prince Rodolfo of Bohemia, who will do anything to possess a powerful object, the Celestial Globe.

Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.

Her self-centered insistence on the birthday gift of her choice causes the young Princess Rosamond to spend seven years as an unwilling member of a traveling band of gypsies, during which she becomes worthy to assume the throne of her kingdom.

An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children, when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.