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In 1904, orphaned Samantha Parkington lives with her rich grandmother, who is trying to make her a proper young lady, but when Samantha becomes friends with Nellie, a servant girl, she learns that life is not easy for everyone and finds a way to help her new friend. Plus, Uncle Gard's new lady friend, Cornelia, shows Samantha there is more than one way to be a lady.

While others at St. Bridget's Home for Abandoned Girls dream of adoption, Rose wants only a job and independence until she is hired as maid to Mr. Fountain, an alchemist, and realizes that she, like his grand residence, is filled with magic.

Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. Sequel to "Anastasia again.".

When greedy Uncle Victor tries to steal Lucy's deceased parents possessions, including her house, Lucy is surprised and amazed when her house transforms itself into a ship, and takes her far away from her uncle. Now Lucy lives a life at sea, which is of course full of dangers, but of joys also. Sailing to Australia to find her last good living relative, Lucy finds herself on a classic adventure quest for buried treasure and family secrets.

After her parents die, Lucy Simmons tries to protect her family home from her greedy uncle Victor with the help of mysterious magic that seems to show up at just the right time. Together with a mysterious woman named Marni, Lucy races to thwart Victor's plans and discovers the most powerful type of magic of all.

Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.

Hannah, a half-Jewish, half-English girl living in Germany in 1938, realizes that she must flee the country or else face danger. Going to her distant relatives in Britain at the country estate of the Starkers, Hannah, now known as Anna, plans on using her looks to marry well and get out of her low life situation.

Elise, an illegitimate child, rises through the service ranks in a castle to become handmaid to the gentle Queen Lenore. But when the king's vindictive family members begin scheming to overthrow him, Elise finds herself bound to protect the royal couple's daughter at any cost.

The story of a young houseboy growing up in Sri Lanka during a turbulent time of political unrest.