Bessie Bridges spent all her life in a Children’s home until she was sent to live with the Baxters, who hoped to adopt her. Bessie was eager to help all she could in her new home, but somehow her efforts seemed to upset the family, who saw her organisation as bossiness.
When Nancy Norton became an apprentice artist at Haggett’s Pottery, in Victorian Times, she was dismayed by the cruel abuse of the young people who worked there. The only way she could help was to make herself a favourite of her employers, which earned her name of “Nasty Nancy”.
Due to a misunderstanding, Kim Weston believed her father to have heart trouble and was hiding it from mom and herself. She intended to do all she could to stop him exerting himself in any way at all!
Young Charlotte Bush was a blind singer being trained for greatness, by ruthless agent Max Roscue. When she unexpectedly recovered her sight, she kept it a secret , afraid she would lose her chance to earn money to help her family.
Georgina Washington’s habit of telling tales backfired on her one moonlight night, when a mysterious old lady cast a spell on her. Whenever the sign of the crescent moon glowed on Georgina’s forehead, she could tell nothing but the truth, however inconvenient it might be.
Only Sandra Harris knew that the ten Space Invader games supposedly sent by market research people to a selection of people in Brentown, were really mind control machines due to be activated by aliens very soon, in a bid to take over earth. Sandra set out to destroy the “games”.
Morna Moore loved her widowed mum dearly, but when they moved to a new housing estate, she became terribly ashamed of her mum because she was old and dowdy! In fact lots of people thought she was her gran, and Morna decided not to correct them to save her own embarrassment.
Lara’s beloved father, Storm, told her that she had been born to save her planet Aramis from Malamor—Prince of the Dark Star, Zad. Malamor stirred up such hatred against Lara that she and her mother and close friends had to leave home.
After a dream holiday in the sun, Goldie Henderson’s dreams turned to nightmares when she lost all her lovely hair in a mystery illness and was forced to wear a wig. Trying to hide the truth about her misfortune led to increasing problems at school. Only at home with her parents, could she feel completely relaxed
After Sandra Smith’s parents separated, she and her mother moved to Minfield. But to her dismay, Sandra discovered that her Dad had moved too—he was the new Headmaster at Minfield comprehensive. Until she and her Mum were permanently settled in Minfield, Sandra felt that neither of her parents should know the other was in the same town.
