Twelve year old orphan, Jane Parrish, lived with the Swan family, her Aunt, Uncle and three beautiful cousins. Because of her ugly duckling image, she had become the family’s drudge.
Della Suffolk’s dreams showed her future events. Sometimes she was able to stop bad incidents from happening, but always seemed to land herself in trouble in the process. She couldn’t tell her greedy parents, as she knew they’d try to make money of her talent.
Lindy Farrar’s family were all sympathetic to her, because of a leg injury from road accident. Her cousin Marion Waddell, was especially kind to her. What they didn’t know was that swimming therapy had cured her limp but she still pretended to have it so she could give herself unfair advantage over kind hearted Marion.
Young Debra Wittaker lived happily with her adoptive mum, a widow, then she discovered that Mark Rutland, a new neighbour was her biological father. Neither parent knew this and to avoid a tug-of-love situation, Debra was keeping it secret and hoping to get her parents to fall in love and marry.
When Alison Shaw’s widowed mother had to go the hospital, her cousin Susan came to look after Ally and her younger siblings, Lynne and Jon. But Susan soon grew tired of the responsibility ran off leaving Ally to cope alone. Not wanting to cause problems, Ally decided to pretend to everyone Susan was still with them.
Holly Taylor was determined that her parents would win the Dunlow Loving Cup, an annual award made to the local couple who had not quarreled for a whole month prior to Dunlow feast day. Holly had a bet with snooty Cynthia Simpson and would lose her new bike to her, if Cynthia’s parents won.
Cathy Barnes was to be adopted by the Hansons and she was happy, but she discovered their daughter, Sara, had died from pneumonia after a cross country run. Mrs Hanson was determined to fuss and make sure nothing happened to Cathy. This was a problem for Cathy as she loved to be active and had joined the gym club at her new school.
After being hit by lightning, Mandy Mills became attractive in a way she wasn’t too happy with. She was charged with a powerful magnetism, which she could control using the ring on her finger.
Rita Haxton had a mysterious mirror, like all mirrors it reflected a reversed image, but unknown to her, Rita’s mirror could also exercise a reversing effect on Rita’s behaviour!
Wanda Wainwright’s Gran was the caretaker of the Shoreleigh Waxworks museum. There was something special about the museum – some of the exhibits that once belonged to the mysterious Professor Marvo, came to life now and again!