In wild west of town of Springville lived Bessie Moody who loved roaming the countryside. But when the vinegary Miss Pickles came to town to set up a school, she was makig free-spirited Bessie’s life a misery!
Five British schoolgirls where cut off when the Japanese invaded Burma in 1942. They set out to make their way to India and were joined by Tuptim a Burmese girl whose secret mission was to take the sacred jewel, a symbol of her people to safety. She could not even tell her companions about it.
When Clarrie Bright’s father inherited a weird machine from an eccentric inventor uncle. Clarrie discovered it was a steam-driven vacuum cleaner – the first of its kind ever invented! As the family was very short of money Clarrie started a vacuum cleaning service and she bought a horse named Jasper to pull the machine along.
Frances Duke lived with her widowed mother who suffered with arthritis. While doing her paper round Frances met Bain a visitor from the planet Um Rika, who offered to marry Mrs Duke and become father to Frances. After several misunderstanding Mrs Duke was coming around to the idea.
Mairi Macintyre was a serving maid at Culloden House before the battle of Culloden in April 1746, when Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s highland army was defeated by government troops. The Prince had given Mhairi his dog, Rowley, to care for and she rescued his injured horse, Hero. She hoped to return the animals to the prince who was fleeing William Duke of Cumberland’s troops. Unknown to her he suspected her plan and was following her hoping she would lead him to the prince.
Kate Crawford, a British tennis champion lost her memory after a road accident in the US. Badly injured her appearance was altered with plastic surgery and another girl’s body was mistakenly identified as Kate. Given the name Virginia Britton, she tried to start a new life and had gotten a job at an exclusive tennis club. There she made an enemy of young tennis star Laurel Morley.
Liz Lucas who worked as a messenger for the Clarion newspaper had a habit of getting into the news herself!
Rita, Georgina Mary and Priscilla were four girls who bumped into each other by chance and discovered a common interest – music. They joined forces to form a band.
During the bombing of London in World War II, many people were made homeless including Sally King, and her friends Jo and Debbie Niven. They decided together to help the animals that had also lost their homes.
Penny Perkins had started a career as a singer and hoped to make money to help her widowed mother. An agent named Mrs Miriam Judd promised to make Penny a star, but Penny discovered too late that she had been tricked into signing a contract that gave Mrs Judd the right to nearly all her earnings.