Upon the death of her mother, Fenella Field discovers she was adopted as a baby and sets out to find her birth parents. She becomes a lodger with her natural family but keeps her identity a secret while waiting for the right time to reveal the truth.
Under the terms of Uncle Hubert’s will, the relative who pushes his bed all the way from John O’Groats to Land’s End will receive his inheritance. His niece, Katie Fraser, takes the job on, but it has to be done manually (fortunately the bed has castors) because no removal firms are permitted. Along the way the bed acquires the name “Fred”, from the boards that get attached to it when a mechanic motorises it.
Hilarious adventures with Flora MacVicar and her pet – the Loch Ness Monster!
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The scheming governess Miss Fallon switches Lady Merrilee Manners, the ward of Sir Anthony Manners and heiress to Roxham Hall, with Belle Thorn, a thief. As a result, Lady Merrilee gets five years in Botany Bay for theft while Miss Fallon passes off Belle as Merrilee.
Marsha Zenon is an alien from outer space who has been sent to Plunkett Academy to study humanity. She is unpopular at first because her knowledge is encyclopaedic, but the girls like her better as she learns to be more human.
Two alien women, Deimos and Phobos, imprison Marlborough Girls’ High School in a transparent dome in order to study human education. Deanna Darwin, captain of the Fifth Form, is determined to defeat the aliens. But she has to contend with things like the aliens encasing her in a magnetic force field so she cannot eat or touch anything, and the weird effects the imprisonment seems to be having on the girls.
Angela Seymour is a new girl at Wynminster School. She seems an innocent-looking girl, but in fact she is a plant who has been placed at Wynminster by her aunt and uncle, who run the rival school, Greenwoods. Her mission is to destroy Wynminster.
In World War II, Lucy Mortimer’s mother is missing. Lucy is recuperating at Nurse Garfield’s home under the name of Sally Dobbing. She is very surprised to find that Nurse Garfield is a duke’s daughter.
Linda Brown is an orphan and her grandmother is too busy to give her much attention. The only person who does is a governess, Pat Roberts. But Pat leaves to get married and gran sends Linda to Brandon College for Girls, a boarding school.
Children are mysteriously going missing. Jo Baker and her friend Jean Simpson discover that a man at a fair is selling red balloons that children can inflate to such sizes that they are literally flying away on them. Jo is shocked to see that one of the latest children to fly away is her sister Lucy.
