When young star Linda Lynn became ill, a look-alike was found to attend Linda’s engagements so that Linda’s high earnings would not be lost. Linda’s manager, Amy Meecher, swore look-alike Glenda Garrod to secrecy and promised she would be well paid. The real Linda was at a secret nursing home. Glenda wasn’t going to give up her new life easily.
Without asking her parents Kelly Barker had taken a pony to save it from slaughter. Knowing that her parents would forbid her to have a pony of her own, she hid it in a disused railway sidings, but then, her parents had discovered her secret. They came to an agreement to give her a month and if she didn’t come to them for money and if the pony wasn’t neglected she could keep him.
Plot:
Triplets Jenny, Tina and Fiona Jordan were pupils at Jedworth Hall Boarding School for girls.
(The Jordons of Jedworth – Judy 1988)
Polly Jones is an avid reader of the girls’ comic “Candy”. To improve herself she copies the characters in the strips (chef, humane worker, actress, athlete, etc), but she blunders each time and gets herself into scrapes.
Other Appearances
Alison Greaves is living in a Children’s Home when she finds out she has four uncles. To decide which one will be her guardian she is trying each uncle out in turn. The first three uncles don’t work out: the first was just after her money; Alison met a jealous, scheming cousin with the second; and the third was uncaring and just looked on Alison as a novelty. So it all comes down to whether the fourth does.
Boastful and selfish Penny Thorpe had stolen an old coin from a blind man. It was having a bad influence over her life, spoiling her chance to join school swimming team. She made sure the old penny was well and truly buried when a road outside he school was relaid — but, soon afterwards, Miss Melbury,the swimming teacher, had a road accident and Penny got the coin back.
It seemed as if twelve-year-old Gail Fraser was finally going to be adopted when she left the Children’s Home to live with Mr and Mrs Elliot. Then, Lauren Banks, who had recently lost her parents, came to live with the Elliots too. Gail overheard them say that one girl would have to go. Gail vowed that it wasn’t going to be her.
Lynn Blake helped her older sister, Carol, run the small Redburn Riding Club. It was their ambition to make the club successful by having a team qualify for the riding club championships.
Jenny found herself wandering the streets of Victorian London suffering from complete loss of memory. A poem in her own handwriting was the only clue Jenny had to her identity. With Doris, a girl who had helped her, Jenny was trying to find her way home.
Jo Martin had lived a boring, lonely life with her divorced mum until her attractive elder sister, Ginnie, returned from abroad. Jo’s life was so much better that she was terrified something would happen to take Ginnie away from her.
“Don’t Go Ginnie!” – Judy: #1461 (9 January 1988) – #1468 (27 February 1968)