After her father dies, Harrie goes to live with her stepmother and stepsisters in Edinburgh.

In The Minister’s Charge (1886), Lemuel Barker leaves his impoverished farm and comes to Boston hoping to become a published poet.

A few chapters of this story introduced Peter Pan to the reading public. His chapters (13-18) were later published as "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens."

Agatha Buchanan (or Wavie), the little motherless daughter of an army captain, left her uncle's Canadian home to travel to Liverpool on board the Queen of the Wave, which was shipwrecked off the coast of Donegal.

Agatha Buchanan (or Wavie), the little motherless daughter of an army captain, left her uncle's Canadian home to travel to Liverpool on board the Queen of the Wave, which was shipwrecked off the coast of Donegal.

In British held Ceylon, tomboy Olive dresses as a boy in a scheme to turn a fellow military youth away from his bad companions and ends up in a native rebellion.

When poor August's father is forced to sell a magnificent stove created by Augustin Hirschvogel, August hides inside it on the trip to the royal palace so he is not parted from it.

He takes on the young daughter of his clerk to become Santa Claus's partner and the two of them distribute gifts to poor children who would not have gifts otherwise. He saves his last gift for the little girl and her family.

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.