Sandra Peach was tricked by Kaye, her younger sister, into entering a beauty contest which, much to her surprise. she won! Sandra agreed somewhat reluctantly to enter more contests, but only on condition that her university studies didn’t suffer.
When fifteen-year-old Pam Potter’s mother had an accident, Pam was left to run their hairdressing business, “Pigtail Corner”, single-handed. It was vital that Pam should make the shop a success, as she and her mother had spent all their savings on starting it.
Roberta Shaw was a policewoman who looked so young she could pass for a schoolgirl – and she was known as “Babyface Bobbie”. Bobbie became a “pupil” at Rowdown Academy so she could act as a secret bodyguard for Karen Kronor, the spoilt daughter of the President of Translavia.
When the matron of Sunnydale Orphanage was injured in an accident if looked as if the girls’ holiday at Sandbay, would be cancelled. The girls, led by Jan Martin, were experts at winning trophies and prizes, and when Mrs Creech and her daughter, Lobelia, heard of this they offered to look after the girls, intending to keep the prizes for themselves.
The Pied Piper’s flute returns to help people in times of trouble.
Only Kathy Carter, a young nanny for the wealthy Ritchie family, knew that little Nora Ritchie had been replaced by an identical space alien child from the planet Twitanie—a little Twit, in fact, with strange powers.
When the German Army over ran Holland in 1940, the Germans began an intensive search for fourteen- year-old Pat Piper. Inside her belt, Pat was carrying a secret formula which the Germans desperately wanted. Pat’s mission was to take the formula to London, and on her travels she took some refugee children into her care. In Antwerp, the children were given a horse, Dapple, and a caravan with instructions to go to Paris where they would he helped on their journey to England. On the road to Paris, Pat overheard plans to capture and kill Dapple and she decided that they would have to leave him behind in the hope that he would find a good home.
An old gipsy woman put a curse on Julia Cardoon, re-naming her “Roma the Roamer” and condemning her to wander throughout her life, with no memory of the past. Roma was captured by a gang of thieves. She tried to escape, but was seized by their leader, the Major.
Julie Latimer was the daughter of Giles Latimer, a race-horse trainer. One day she found a foal abandoned by the gipsies and brought it home. From the start Gipsy made her mark z. on the strict routine of the racing stables. Now Gipsy was big enough for Julie to ride regularly. All she needed was as a set of shoes.
Ruth Fennell was the daughter of John Fennell, a travelling black-smith. She was an unusual girl,with the gift of second sight and a rare way with all animals. For some time, Ruth had been aware that a tribe of gipsies was secretly helping her and this puzzled her.
