Dora Day had found a dog and adopted him, but she didn’t know he was a wizard that turned himself 500 years ago and couldn’t turn back. Sometimes he almost managed it, but always turns back before Dora sees.
One night all the children in the town where Louisa lived, were summoned by a mysterious light that settled on top of a nearby hill. The children were never seen again except for Louisa who had been too slow ro join them because of her lame leg. However the urge to find the mysterious light caused Louisa to leave home with her her dog, Toby.
Brenda was so unhappy at her new school, that she wanted to run away to fair where her new friend, Davie, lived.
Carol Smith’s mom won a dream bungalow, but then Mrs Smith becomes so house proud she won’t let Carol’s dog, Mitch, inside the house.
Sal Gilbert and Joe Westwere brought up together ina London Children’s Homea Sal wanted to an opera singer like her late father but something awful had happened to her singing voice and now it could shatter glass.
A talented young pianist was sure she could hear her piano being played in lounge, but when she investigated only her mum was there. She later finds out her mother was also a pianist but had to give up her career plans, she kept it a secret from her daughter.
Amy and Ruth had been invited to spend a fortnight with their great aunt Maude although they had never met her. After arriving they were told by her employees, the Clydes, that she was ill and couldn’t be seen.
Impaired after a car accident Ruth Belmount felt life wasn’t worth living, until she met two beavers at Willow Mere. The beavers were in the care of Professor Standish who was trying to establish a colony in Britain. He requested Ruth to assist him but parents weren’t keen to agree.
Story about the grinding hard work of training for ballet, follows the life of boys and girls at the Royal Ballet School.
In 1870, Jenny Draper and Meg Warren ran away from Brackwood Orphange where they believed the orphanage governors, the Pearces, were trying to have Meg killed.