Hattie Benson is nicknamed Fatty Hattie because she is tubby. She is not bothered by the nickname, but her friends are trying to find ways to slim her down without her realising it. However, they are not having much success.
Jenna Firth moves in with her adoptive parents and brother, Mark. She then discovers she has two brothers and two sisters in The Oak Children’s Home. Jenna decides to make them want her to belong before she reveals herself. But things always seem to go wrong.
Marion Trent lived happily with her grandmother, until she overheard a conversation between two doctors that her Gran only had 3 months to live. Marion vowed to make money anyway she could, even at the risk of being called mean, in order to take her Gran to London for the holiday the old lady always wanted.
Loretta Davies was terribly upset when her best friend suddenly collapsed and died. Loretta vowed she would never laugh or smile again.
Janet Jarvis thinks up an idea for a new television programme – Jane’ll Fix It!, a programme that helps people’s secret dreams come true. The programme proves a great success, but producing it leads to all sorts of sticky situations.
Louisa “Goldilocks” Marshfield, the daughter of wealthy parents, is carried off with pauper children by mistake to slave in a cotton mill. She escapes with Tim and Annie Barr, but the road back to her home in London is a hard and dangerous one.
Patsy Brown has secretly ordered a statue to be made of her mother. But coming up with the money to pay for it is getting her into all sorts of scrapes.
Plot:
Penny Farrell is a rising tennis star as the result of her partnership with T Jones. But there is something strange about T Jones, who seems to have powers of precognition.
Ann Bennett and Liz Miller have never gotten along. So when their parents marry, and they find themselves stepsisters, it does not make for a peaceful household.
When Kay Stevens’ father remarries and the family relocates, Kay finds herself in the awkward position of having her stepmother as one of her teachers at school.
