Fern Patterson had moved from the country into town, but things weren’t going too well. The school bully, Penny, was picking on her, and Fern was finding it difficult to fit in.
Sue Perry and Sharon Dixon have been friends for years, so are excited when Sharon’s parents have to go away for few months and Sharon will stay at Sue’s house. But it turns out living together isn’t as easy as they thought it would be.
Sophie Masters was school mistress at Oxley village in 1840. The school was maintained by a special trust, but there had to be at least three pupils on the roll or it would be closed. Elsa Bradley, the squire’s daughter, pretended to be Sophie’s friend but was plotting against her.
Gina Robson was thrilled when her mother invited Gina’s boyfriend,Sam, to stay with them for six weeks while his parents visited Hong Kong. But having Sam around all the time wasn’t always wonderful.
When Cindy Roberts was marooned on a Pacific island, she had Brassribs, a robot butler invented by her dad to look after her.
Other Appearances:
Tara Trent was looking after Jack, an abandoned pony who proved to be a natural jumper. Tara was working as groom for Mrs Lacey and had accompanied her and her daughter, Stella, to Ireland. Stella and Tara both entered in the working class pony competition.
When friends of twelve-year-old Barbara Carter’s father were killed, their ten-year-old son, Steve, came to live with the Carters. Barbara had always wanted a brother — but now she wasn’t too sure.
Princess Lana of Berkstein, was in Britain to learn social graces and perform a few public functions. A dream had come true when she was accepted by the House of Frage as a model. However, she didn’t dare let her Aunt Florence, the Duchess of Ranningham, find out, so she changed her name to Salty Smith and disguised herself by wearing a wig and sunglasses.
When her father died bankrupt, thirteen year old Anna Curtis was made to work as a kitchen maid in the school she had previously been head girl, in order to pay off her school fees. Her father’s ex-partner, believed that Mr Curtis had sent Anna a valuable diamond before he supposedly died.
Nerissa lives on the island of Madagona and intensifies her swimming training with coconuts tied around her waist to make swimming harder. She leaves Madagona to become a champion swimmer to help her island, which is poor.