When wealthy Mrs Richmond lost all her money, Wanda Simmons left the orphanage to help the woman who had wanted to adopt her. Mrs Richmond took a job in the Sports’ Department of a Jorge store but she became very angry when Wanda saw her demonstrating a tennis stroke to a customer.
In Nazi Germany, during the Second World War, two Dutch youngsters Greta Mappel and Piet Tilburg were trying to get home to Holland. They had an unusual companion, an old circus lion called Marmaduke.
Curly O’Hallaron was keen to play hockey, but it was an adjustment after playing hurling before. Two girls Doreen and Roberta plot to get rid of Curly from the school team.
Hannah and Sam are two orphans working in Mrs Kennel’s lodging house in the East End of London. One of the lodgers is Peter Palisade, a mystery man who sleeps by day and goes out only after dark. Sam decides to follow him one night. Peter Palisade returns but there is no further sign of Sam. Hannah is sure that Peter has killed Sam but she is forced to flee when Palisade catches her searching a large trunk in his room. Hannah finds refuge with Sarah. an old friend, and late at night, when . everyone is asleep, the two girls return to the lodging house to pick up Hannah’s few poor belongings, just as they are about to leave. the front door begins to open…
A strange girl called Elva had been found on the beach at the fishing village of Rockhaven by Peggy Croft and her friends. But who Elva was and where she came from was a mystery.
Many years ago in Venice, a young boy, Giacomo Manetti, vanished. His father, a gondolier, was injured while searching for him and now, his twin sister, Gina, disguised as a gondolier, was looking for him.
Freda Simmers had not seen her father while he had been in Malaya, during World War Two. But she believed that the Captain Simmers who returned home to Pentire House was not her father. A mysterious stranger, Ernest Smith, had come to work at Pentire House as a handyman, seemed to have some connection to the house though.
A mysterious Chinese Mandarin doll seems to bring luck to people over the years or justice to those that deserve it.
Dorcas, a little London waif was forced to work for a chimney sweep by the cruel Mrs Greems. Mrs Greems also had a lodger, a mysterious man known as Old Ben, who was kind to the children but Mrs Greems wanted to know what he was hiding.
Lucy Lester had agreed to do a ballerina on horseback act in her uncle’s circus. She had been led to believe, by her uncle, that her act would help pay her mother’s medical bills abroad. Her Uncle wanted her to do more daring stunts. Lucy’s trainer was Madame Cocola who used to be a dog trainer, she believed she could get Lucy to be as obedient as her dogs.
