Nellie a street orphan in London in Victorian times, was given a job as a kitchen maid after striking up a friendship with the young daughter Georgina Pemberton and rescuing her when she was lost. She hoped to one day become personal maid to her friend Georgina, but found the rest of the staff, scoffed at the idea and were prejudiced against her because she came from the streets.
Katy Marshall was delighted when her uncle in America wrote to her that he had to sell off his farm and was sending her his champion horse, Spots. She is surprised to learn when Spots arrived that he was a miniature pony not a riding champion, she soon finds out though that he is a performing pony. In order to keep him she had to figure out some way to raise money.
When Di Hopkins left school she got a job with a group called The Deliverers. They guaranteed to deliver any object large or small to any destination. Di finds that even the most seemingly simple job can lead to adventures, such as when she is delivering cake and the taxi she is in is hi-jacked by bank robbers!
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Abby-Jo McQuinty comes from a hill farming family and caused excitement by becoming a pop-singer. The MacRoon family, who had an ongoing feud with the McQuintys, played dirty tricks to try and stop Abby-Jo achieving fame. They don’t succeed at their schemes and Abby-Jo sick of the fighting makes her own scheme getting her brother Luke, to marry Sugar MacRoon and bringing the families together.
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Jenny Carter strikes up a friendship with Pippa Parker who has moved into Harwood Hall with her guardian Mrs Gore. When Jenny meets Pippa at school later she seems to be a completely different girl, she has no interest in Jenny only in schoolwork and appears to incredibly smart and great at all things. By investigating Jenny finds out that Mrs Gore is running experiments on Pippa using a special computer every night. When the effect wear off later in the day Pippa is her normal self, Jenny agrees to try and help her. Mrs Gore plans to replace teachers if her experiments are a success so Jenny tries to help Pippa fail. Such as when the computer teaches Pippa lines of play but she is only able to remember them if the cues are right, Jenny reading against her changes the words slightly to confuse her or during a cross-country trial she challenges her to run up extra hill to keep her going till the computer effects wear out.
Thelma’s family are all fond of their food, but Thelma prefers to stay thin. When her family win money for trip to Spain she is determined to get them all in shape before the holiday. They come up with schemes to try to sneak food but Thelma always outsmarts them.
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In 1803, Lisbeth Leach ran away from the orphanage in which she was being brought up. She was “adopted” as niece by Charles and Sarah Cox, a puppeteer and his wife, who took Lisbeth with them on their tour of France. The French authorities were suspicious of them and it seemed like they were using the puppets to send secret messages.
Terry Brown and Carol Blair, two sixteen-year-olds, set up in business on their own when they left school. Their job was to try to obtain anything which their clients might request. Some of these were quite unusual requests, such as when 2 children come in to ask for new legs for their mother. Terry and Carol figure out the issue that their mother has to walk with aids and struggles to get to their top floor flat. The girls solve the problem not be getting her new legs, but pairing her with a client that needed a cook, a live-in job that came with a a ground floor flat.
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Polly Wentworth and her friend, Janey Adams, worked in Pets Corner at Castle Rock Zoo, where they had to look after most of the small animals.
Mandy Ormond, a talented girl who attended art school won an embroidery competition and the prize was to accompany a travelling embroidery exhibition on a tour of the Continent. The party, comprising of Mandy, Margaret Evans and Helen Pickard, had adventures in each of the cities they visit.
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