Debbie Hart was in trouble for not attending school so she was being supervised by Mrs Bonnington, known as Bonny, a voluntary social worker. But Bonny’s home and lifestyle were very different to Debbie’s, which led to problems, this was not helped by Bonny’s daughter, Liz, who was out to get rid of Debbie.
Stories told by Molly a young girl who stays at Maryfield Children’s home, which is run by housemother, they call Mrs M.
Josie King’s mother bought a Victorian doll’s house with family, housekeeper and cook – but no servant doll. Josie became the servant doll, powerless to resist the call of bullying Mrs Higgins, the housekeeper doll. Believing it to be her only escape, Josie was determined to find the missing doll and put her back in the house.
Tina Layne’s parents died and her brother Tommy was badly injured in a tragic accident. The Laynes were taken in by their mother’s half sister, Janice Kent and her husband Frank. When Tina made an impression as a rebel rock singer, Janice and Frank set out to exploit her.
Pam is fostered by a family, who turns out to have adopted her twin sister, Kerry as a baby. Through misunderstanding the girls each thought the other didn’t like her.
Glenda Charlton lived in the Wisteria Children’s Home, where Jean and Andy Dawson were house parents. They didn’t know that Glenda had deliberately spoiled her chances of adoption to let other children find happy homes.
Since discovering she was adopted, Rosalyn Blair felt the odd girl out in her talented family. She tried desperately hard to be like them but her efforts kept going wrong. She poured out her unhappiness in her diary, then to her horror – she lost it!
Patti Wilson decides she must find her divorced mother a new boyfriend.
Orphan Jemma Ward, was taken in by her older brother and sister, but then she found out the only reason they had taken her in, was to meet the condition in their Uncle’s will to inherit his home.
14 year old, Linda Carter was famous as the teenage nightingale, until an accident ruined her singing voice. Spoilt Linda was finding it difficult to adjust to normal life, but her younger sister, Fay, was determined to help her as she mistakenly thought she caused the accident.