When a mystery disease turned horses into savages, all the horses in the world had to be tracked down and destroyed. Many years later (in the 21st century) Willa James had found a pony in welsh mountains while on holidays. She befriended the pony she named Max and ran off with him when people thought he was dangerous.
Laura Walsh, a young schoolgirl, was left a pony, Misty, by on old woman whom she had befriended and she also inherited a field and cottage. Even with the inheritance Laura still needed money to pay for Misty’s keep and a gymkhana was Laura’s only hope of winning money. Unfortunately Laura had a rival in the wealthy and jealous, Alison Swayle, whose father wanted Laura’s site for a building.
Young Caroline was mute since her parents were killed by a highwayman. Then she was taken from the workhouse to work for Miss Abigail in her large gloomy mansion. Caroline discovered the house was also being used as a hideout for highwaymen and also that a girl was being held prisoner somewhere in the building. Some cats which roamed the house were Caroline’s only friends.
Pop fan, Bobbie Fay and bookworm, Beryl Bates have taken the task of rolling a giant cheese 200 miles from London to Diddlecombe as an advertising promotion for the Chunky Cheese Company. Unknown to the girls two of London’s most useless thieves have hidden jewels in the cheese and were following the girls while pretending to be reporters.
In 1588, Liza Trott’s mother Betsy is accused of witchcraft by Sir Edward, the current owner of Mullion Manor, and imprisoned to await trial at the assizes. Liza is branded “W” as the daughter of a witch and turned out of the community. She goes to London to get help for her mother from the previous owner of Mullion Manor. But when Sir Edward realises where Liza is headed, he goes in pursuit of her.
In World War II Sally Dixon joins the Royal Navy as a Wren. The trouble is, she’s a jinx and things just seem to go wrong around her. Fortunately nothing goes wrong when Sally hauls a mine out to sea for a destroyer to deal with – except that she gets stuck on board the destroyer as they are on urgent business and don’t have time to put her ashore. Will the destroyer find Sally the Jinx even more destructive than Hitler’s war machine?
Swimming coach Mary Driver, obsessed with training a champion, blackmails Dina Taylor into a merciless swimming regime to turn her into that champion. Things take an unexpected twist when Dina’s art teacher Mr Wright becomes a more kind-hearted second coach to help Dina with her butterfly stroke, and Driver is forced to agree to it.
Nagoma Kintanga is a new pupil at Quentin College. Nagoma’s classmates think she is the daughter of a witch-doctor and expect her to be able to work magic. When Nagoma fails to convince them she is nothing of the sort, she gets a spell book to see if it can either help her to meet their demands for magic or convince them that she can’t do magic. But things don’t seem to go right either way.
Amy Woodley becomes convinced a brilliant skater named Katina is in fact her sister Marcia. But Katina does not even recognise Amy as her sister. And who is that mysterious woman in black who is always veiled and trying to stop Amy from finding out the truth, even to the point of framing her for theft? It becomes apparent that the woman in black has some sort of evil influence over Marcia, and Katina’s skating, while brilliant, has an oddly mechanical look.
Teeny the Genie was banished to live in a corked-up bottle for 100 years but is freed by Lucy. However, Lucy is a greedy girl and her mother wants to cure her. Teeny keeps trying to help with her magic, but it always goes wrong, leading to humorous hijinks.
