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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia end up adopting, Nellie, Bridget and Jenny in the final book]].
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* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia end up adopting, adopting Nellie, Bridget and Jenny in the final book]].book]].
* InsufferableGenius: Edith is a snobby girl in Samantha's class who thinks she's better and smarter than everyone else. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is smugly giving the correct answer to a question that Samantha's friend Helen answered incorrectly.
-->''"That is correct," said Miss Stevens, and Edith gloated. Samatha could just imagine Edith keeping score in her head, "Me--107, everyone else--0." Edith was smart, but not as smart as she thought she was. Probably no one on earth was as smart as Edith Eddleton thought she was.''
* InsufferableGenius: Edith is a snobby girl in Samantha's class who thinks she's better and smarter than everyone else. Her EstablishingCharacterMoment is smugly giving the correct answer to a question that Samantha's friend Helen answered incorrectly.
-->''"That is correct," said Miss Stevens, and Edith gloated. Samatha could just imagine Edith keeping score in her head, "Me--107, everyone else--0." Edith was smart, but not as smart as she thought she was. Probably no one on earth was as smart as Edith Eddleton thought she was.''
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* PeerAsTeacher: Nellie starts school late for her age (because she had to work in a factory to support her family) and is made fun of by her younger classmates who think she's stupid for not being able to read and write and being the oldest in her second-grade class. Samantha decides to tutor her to get her into the next grade up and sets up a classroom in her attic with supplies lent to her by her own teacher, Miss Stevens. The two girls call it the Mount Better School -- a play on the name of Samantha's school, the Mount Bedford School -- and Samantha teaches Nellie reading and writing (as she soon learns that Nellie [[GoodWithNumbers learned math making quick money choices]] with what little they had to support a family of five).
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''Changes for Samantha'', Aunt Cornelia and Uncle Gard's maid Gertrude is antagonistic with Samantha and is the one who eventually goes snooping and finds out about Nellie and her sisters staying there[[note]]admittedly, this was an untenable situation long-term anyway, but Gertrude clearly did it because she was suspicious of Samantha and wanted to prove her suspicions right, not out of concern that there was an actual problem[[/note]]. After the O'Malleys are adopted, she behaves similarly antagonistically towards them, leading Nellie to suspect that Gertrude is resentful of serving girls that would have been of her social class had they not been adopted. In the movie, she is much friendlier towards Samantha and the O'Malleys, is downright ''indignant'' on Samantha's behalf when Miss Frouchy accuses her of stealing, and praises Samantha when her speech is chosen for the school assembly. She also has nothing to do with the discovery of Nellie and her sisters, as in the adaptation Samantha is forced to come clean of her own accord after Bridget becomes seriously ill and needs a doctor.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''Changes for Samantha'', Aunt Cornelia and Uncle Gard's maid Gertrude is antagonistic with Samantha and is the one who eventually goes snooping and finds out about Nellie and her sisters staying there[[note]]admittedly, this was an untenable situation long-term anyway, but Gertrude clearly did it because she was suspicious of trying to prove Samantha and wanted was up to prove her suspicions right, no good, not out of concern that there was an actual problem[[/note]]. After the O'Malleys are adopted, she behaves similarly antagonistically towards them, leading Nellie to suspect that Gertrude is resentful of serving girls that would have been of her social class had they not been adopted. In the movie, she is much friendlier towards Samantha and the O'Malleys, is downright ''indignant'' on Samantha's behalf when Miss Frouchy accuses her of stealing, and praises Samantha when her speech is chosen for the school assembly. She also has nothing to do with the discovery of Nellie and her sisters, as in the adaptation Samantha is forced to come clean of her own accord after Bridget becomes seriously ill and needs a doctor.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In ''Changes for Samantha'', Aunt Cornelia and Uncle Gard's maid Gertrude is antagonistic with Samantha and is the one who eventually goes snooping and finds out about Nellie and her sisters staying there[[note]]admittedly, this was an untenable situation long-term anyway, but Gertrude clearly did it because she was suspicious of Samantha and wanted to prove her suspicions right, not out of concern that there was an actual problem[[/note]]. After the O'Malleys are adopted, she behaves similarly antagonistically towards them, leading Nellie to suspect that Gertrude is resentful of serving girls that would have been of her social class had they not been adopted. In the movie, she is much friendlier towards Samantha and the O'Malleys, is downright ''indignant'' on Samantha's behalf when Miss Frouchy accuses her of stealing, and praises Samantha when her speech is chosen for the school assembly. She also has nothing to do with the discovery of Nellie and her sisters, as in the adaptation Samantha is forced to come clean of her own accord after Bridget becomes seriously ill and needs a doctor.
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Samantha's parents perished in a storm when she was four, and ever since, Samantha had lived with her wealthy but old-fashioned grandmother. Soon after turning ten, however, she moves in with her Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia in the city when Grandmary remarries.
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Samantha's parents perished in a storm when she was four, five, and ever since, Samantha had lived with her wealthy but old-fashioned grandmother. Soon after turning ten, however, she moves in with her Uncle Gard and Aunt Cornelia in the city when Grandmary remarries.
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* OrphansPlotTrinket: Samantha's locket with her parents' picture seems like a perfect fit, but since she still has other family, just not parents, and a warm and loving home, and she knows how her parents died, it serves no real plot significance. However, in the fourth book, Samantha finds a sketchbook her mother made of the three of them--three-year-old Samantha and her mother and father--having vacation on Teardrop Island, it inspires her to journey to Teardrop Island in the hope of jogging any lost memories of her parents.
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* OrphansPlotTrinket: Samantha's locket with her parents' picture seems like a perfect fit, but since she still has other family, just not parents, and a warm and loving home, and she knows how her parents died, it serves no real plot significance. However, in the fourth fifth book, Samantha finds a sketchbook her mother made of the three of them--three-year-old Samantha and her mother and father--having vacation on Teardrop Island, it inspires her to journey to Teardrop Island in the hope of jogging any lost memories of her parents.
