Jill Langton was the most popular girl at Brookfield School until she befriended newcomer Sue Sangster who seemed to have an unhappy talent for doing or saying exactly the wrong things.
In the 1840s Molly O’Doyle and her family emigrated from America from Ireland. Now they were going to head to California on the wagon trial, but Molly had a problem – a leprechaun called Flaherty who had accidentally been taken to America with the O’Doyles luggage. Molly had promised to take him back to Ireland.
After a mysterious explosion destroyed her millionaire uncle’s yacht, Sandy Fuller and her tutor Jonas Withers were rescued by the strange inhabitants of the lost island of Mu, never seen before by other human eyes. They gave Sandy special powers in the fight against evil and arranged for her to be picked up by a passing liner. Back home she was forbidden from making any friends or she would lose her powers.
Christine Jenkins mother was looking after an unusual plant for Mrs Walton, an elderly neighbour who had been taken into hospital. But Mrs Walton had told Christine there was something evil about the plant and asked Christine to destroy it, which was proving to be difficult.
Jenny Laidlaw who lived happily in a Children’s home was befriended by a wealthy widow Mrs. Dawson, who confided in Jenny that her baby daughter had been kidnapped years earlier and never seen again. Later Wendy Smith came to the home and she had the same distinctive birthmark as Mrs Dawsons daughter and connections to the town she was kidnapped from. Jenny decided she must turn the tough dishonest Wendy into a suitable daughter for the lonely and ailing Mrs. Dawson before revealing the secret
After the death of her husband Mrs Cameron and her daughter Jill found it a struggle to keep the Cameron Hotel going. Then she met an old school friend Alice Delmount who was also a widow and had money to invest. Mrs Delmount suggested a partnership after a trial period but her daughter Emily was sabotaging the plans.
Melody Moffat was pop star but also a top secret agent. She had to contend with an international group of criminals known as the Chord. Her deadliest enemy to date – The Duplicator, an evil genius, who was producing life like robots of famous and influential people to use so that he could eventually rule the world.
Ruth Miller had always been known by her schoolmates as Ruth the Lionheart—and with good reason. She would never give up, no matter what the challenge. Then, when on the site where a Roman soldier, branded as coward, was reputed to have died, Ruth suddenly seemed to lose all her own confidence and courage.
Jody Powell had slipped back in time to the 1880s when Deansbrook School was Deansbrook Orphanage. She swapped places with a look alike Katy Stanley for 24 hrs but the plan misfired and now the girls were trapped. Katy was enjoying her time in the present and was unaware of the situation.
Orphan Shirley Turner was given a comfortable home with her cousin Joan’s parents. While acting friendly, secretly, Joan hated having Shirley in the house and set out to make trouble for her in the hopes of her being sent away. After Shirley gets injured while saving Joan, Joan has a change of heart and confesses everything.
