When Sarah, a promising young swimmer, was adopted by the rich Mrs Jones she thought her dreams had come true. That was until Mrs Jones told her the real reason for the adoption was to stop her swimming ever again. But Sarah was determined to keep swimming no matter what the obstacles.
Schoolgirl Pippa, volunteers at a hospital taking a library trolley around the wards, and she always ends up helping patients along the way.
Jane Green and her friends attend St Jude’s school.
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Julie Trotter befriended Stella, a girl from the planet Venus. With the aid of Phocus her robot camera, Stella was studying the planet Earth for a school project.
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Orphan Ellie Snow was forced into stealing by her brutal Uncle Fred. She was arrested for bag snatching and she escaped dazed and shocked, when the police car crashed. She hitched a lift to Devonshire then collapsed in the doorway of village shop and the owner Mrs Warner mistook her for her own niece Helen, who was due to arrive that day.
In Victorian times, during a long couch journey a girl met with accident and suffered a partial memory loss. She thought her name was Josie and faintly remembered a small boy with her. But nobody remembered seeing a boy and desperate with worry Josie set out to find him. Her only clue being a lock of hair.
Lesley Moore was friendly with the next door neighbor’s dog, Donovan. She was upset to hear the old dog was going to be put down.
Sue Flynn is the daughter of a Canadian Mountie, she is taken hostage along with her dog, Blue, by a crook named Dawson. When the plane Dawson hijacked, crashed, he broke his leg and only then did he discover Sue was blind. Not wishing to be arrested, he made a sledge and forced Sue an Blue to haul him overland, towards outlaw town.
Sara and Ron are staying in London with their Gran. Everyone was busy organising a huge family party and Uncle Jack writes to ask them to collect a secret Christmas surprise. But they had lost it at a jumble sale and were now trying to track it down.
Toni Mitchell was mad about hair dressing and had a gift for it.