When the girls of the French orphanage visit the dog cemetery, Brigitte gets left behind and has an adventure with a woman whose husband is a pretender to the French throne.

Josine, the youngest orpheline, manages to solve the problem of keeping the baby boy found on the orphanage's doorstep

The story of how the orphelines settle on one animal for their pet

When the orphelines move into an old castle they think is enchanted, they look forward to meeting the boys who will be sharing their home. But the boys play nasty tricks on them—until Brigitte and Josine suddenly get lost in the forest. Then an unexpected solution arises to delight everyone.

Children at a happy French orphanage in the forest of Fountainebleau decide to conduct a search for a grandmother to make the orphanage family complete and in the process find a grandfather as well