Angela Seymour is a new girl at Wynminster School. She seems an innocent-looking girl, but in fact she is a plant who has been placed at Wynminster by her aunt and uncle, who run the rival school, Greenwoods. Her mission is to destroy Wynminster.
In World War II, Lucy Mortimer’s mother is missing. Lucy is recuperating at Nurse Garfield’s home under the name of Sally Dobbing. She is very surprised to find that Nurse Garfield is a duke’s daughter.
Linda Brown is an orphan and her grandmother is too busy to give her much attention. The only person who does is a governess, Pat Roberts. But Pat leaves to get married and gran sends Linda to Brandon College for Girls, a boarding school.
Children are mysteriously going missing. Jo Baker and her friend Jean Simpson discover that a man at a fair is selling red balloons that children can inflate to such sizes that they are literally flying away on them. Jo is shocked to see that one of the latest children to fly away is her sister Lucy.
Dora Spoone is the dimmest pupil at Eversford School, and is also the school klutz – everything she does goes wrong. Yet the school computer picks her as the most brilliant scholar, so she is entered along with five other clever pupils in the School of the Year Contest. Ironically, it is Dora’s blundering that is pulling the team through to success. All the same, her team mates want to get rid of her.
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Sally Shaw leaves school and starts work at Sylvano’s department store. She wants to be a window dresser, but Miss Newman, the head window dresser, is being deliberately hard on her to test her resolve while the other assistants are snobby and then jealous. Sally finds solace in a wonderful secret – using the basement to practise her own window-dressing.
Barbara Taylor runs ballet lessons in the East End of London in a converted stable. She takes in Jessie Tandy, a problem girl on the brink of being sent to approved school, in the hope that ballet will tame her as ballet is one thing that Jessie loves. But the girls are not friendly to Jessie because their parents have forbidden it, and this is making Jessie aggressive again.
Margot Bennett and her family run Bennetts’ Travelling Ballet, a ballet company that tours the country and performs in places where ballet is rarely seen.
Artist: Tony Thewenetti
In 1870s Colorado, Sadie Heritage, her father and her brother Rolf’s family arrive in the boom town of Kowawa Springs. The men of the family find it difficult to get work, but Sadie is making ends meet with her sewing machine. The men eventually find good jobs, but Rolf’s family are still hanging on and expect Sadie to slave for them all the time.
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Ira Insley’s scientist father is kidnapped. During the kidnap, he throws a phial out the window and tells Ira to get rid of it at all costs. When the kidnappers make a grab for the phial, Ira swallows it and becomes invisible. Ira’s friend Wendy does what she can to help hide her condition. But in the absence of Ira’s father and the kidnappers coming after her, an antidote is not likely at the present time.
