Polly Wentworth and her friend, Janey Adams, worked in Pets Corner at Castle Rock Zoo, where they had to look after most of the small animals.
Mandy Ormond, a talented girl who attended art school won an embroidery competition and the prize was to accompany a travelling embroidery exhibition on a tour of the Continent. The party, comprising of Mandy, Margaret Evans and Helen Pickard, had adventures in each of the cities they visit.
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Sadie Leigh, an English schoolgirl, was shipwrecked on the South Sea island of marisk. The only inhabitants on the island ere children, the adults having been killed when the island’s volcano erupted.
Thirteen year old,Paddy Reynolds was a member of Gordon & Small’s circus. She was nicknamed Paddy Longlegs because of her talent in stilt walking.
Olwen Peters and her classmates were competing as a choir in the Abervale Singing Festival under the leadership of Margaret Tarrant, a young woman who wished the choir to sing her late father’s unpublished music for the first time. The choir had had to practice in secret, as singing was forbidden them by Mrs Pugh, who owned the village and valley of Llanbryn where they lived.
Roma Randall, lived in The Penelope, a converted canal boat with her family, who were puppeteers travelling the waterways of England.
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Hetty Marlowe was spending a holiday in Hamburg with her German pen-friend, Giesela Reinhardt, when floods struck the city. Hetty was separated from her friends and was rescued by a mysterious American woman named Mary Kellow, who disappeared while Hetty was asleep, taking Hetty’s passport and leaving her coat and American passport in exchange. Hetty was later taken to a reception centre for flood victims and her name was recorded as Mary Kellow. Before Hetty could explain matters, she discovered the police were looking for Mary Kellow, and that the American passport was forged.
In 1940, the coast of Kent became the British front-line of the war, as the German Army was then in France, twenty-five miles across the English Channel. All the able-bodied men of the district joined the services, leaving the women to take over the jobs. Fiona Carter and her mother ran Downs Farm with the help of Jill and Pat, two Land Army girls, while Mr Carter served with the Naval Reserve.
Sally Stevens was to be on call to her clients at any time in any emergency, and she called her service “Emergency 666”. She arrived at the office every morning ready for anything.
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Reg Bruce, a world cycling champion died in a road accident, but before he died his daughter, Lynn, promised him that she would practise until she became a champion herself. Lynn’s mother, however, forbade her to cycle again, but Lynn found a friend in Miss Lawson of Lackley Grange. Not only did Miss Lawson allow Lynn to practise in a large empty room in her house, but she also lent her an old bicycle.