Donna Murray aimed to win the Southern Ballroom Queen title in a dancing contest, knowing the money would help her widowed mother. Donna’s dance partner was Graham Bennett, but her well off snobbish Aunt Sophy was determined to make her dance with her Cousin Clarance instead.
The Freemantle family had a mystery guest, a girl called Cathy, who had lost her memory after a fall from a horse. When two men from the mysterious Alpha Project broke into their house search for Cathy she decided to move someplace else. Lindsay Freemantle went with her to help her.
A text story following the ordinary everyday life of a girl named Janie.
Lucy loves writing letters, to fan clubs, magazines, agony columns, en-pals, chums, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great-aunts, great-uncles…in fact she’ll write to anybody!
Lily’s father had been reported missing, believed dead, in the Far East. Lily was desperately trying to hide the news from her sick mum, fearing the shock may kill her. But it also meant Lily was forced to secretly work in a factory by day and study at night.
Tina Lawson doesn’t find it easy being the daughter of Kit Lawson, record star and tv star of the cop show, Kestrel. Especially as her father is also impulsive and impractical. Her mum was his manager, but they fought so much they split-up, now Tina has taken over the job and problems!
Anna Small left virtually penniless after the death of her father was given a job by a distant relative, John Trelawney, cataloguing the books in the library of his home, the bleak forbidding Ravenscrag Towers. Also living there was John’s daughter a cripple confined to bed and hated by her father.
Maggie Deakin discovered that a voodoo mask her uncle brought back from Brazil had the most startling power. By turning one of the horns a certain way the wearer could become invisible.
Penny Morton was just starting her career as a police cadet. Sometimes she was helped – or hindered – by her young brother and sister, the twins Jane and John.
A series of complete stories involving a nursing theme such as:
The Escape Clinic
In 1914, Lisa Dubois worked in her Father’s Inn in Belgium but her ambition was to become a nurse. It seemed unlikely, until war broke out and she helps nurse an English soldier, then sneaks him to Brussels. There she gets help by a doctor who brings them to a clinic, that is secretly helping the Allies. Lisa gets to train to be a nurse under Edith Cavell until Edith’s execution.
