Hannah Hamer’s father was the village clogmaker, and reckoned her younger brother Robin should learn the craft from him. However, Hannah felt Robin should have a better start in life, so she took on a dreadful job at the local paper mill, while he went to study at The College on the Hill.
Harriet Jones had an unusual holiday job. She was employed as a crime-buster by millionaire, Mandy Maxon. Harriet was assisted by a robot car and it’s robot chauffeur, Robert.
Jane and Susie James were identical twins and had been brought up by their Great Aunt Katherine. When Aunt Katherine got into financial difficulties, they moved to a smaller house in a new town. The twins were eager to attend a private school near their new home, but Aunt Katherine could only afford for one of them to attend. The girls come up with the idea to secretly share their education, enrolling as Mary James – Jane did the classwork while Susie did the sports.
Orphan Dolly Leonard was happy to be taken in by the wealthy Mrs. Carstairs to live in Taltree Manor, but then Mrs. Carstairs had a stroke leaving her paralysed. When her relatives arrived, they discovered their aunt was leaving her estate to Dolly , on the condition that Dolly was still living there at the time of Mrs. Carstair’s death. They were determined to get rid of Dolly before this happened.
Polly Martin’s trendy Granny was on probation as Polly’s legal guardian. If she couldn’t mend her ways and act in a more responsible manner, Polly would have to return to the children’s home.
Jan and Hilary Exton had been exploring the countryside through which their canal narrow boat was passing, when they took a short-cut – when they found themselves 200 years in the past, when Britain’s’ canals were being built. They were mistaken for boys and ordered to work on the construction of the canals.
Red Indian raiders had killed Carey Lane’s parents and destroyed their farm, so she was travelling to the Rocky Mountains to find her brother Crispin. Her only companions were a horse, a dog and two dozen chicks.
Carol Parker and Alice Redfern were totally different girls, but their mothers had been very close friends when they were young. When they found out their daughters were going to the same boarding school they assumed the girls would be close friends too. Unfortunately the girls couldn’t stand each other and when the Head tries to bring them together, it was like trying to mix oil and water!
Joyce Marsh had made the dreadful discovery that her employers, the Herrings were ‘cribbers’ – people who bought and sold stolen babies. The Herrings were also her family’s landlords, and Joyce’s father had forbidden her to go to the police in case they were thrown out into the streets. Joyce tried to reunite the babies with their parents without making the Herrings suspicious of her.
Nonie Byrne had many problems when a medieval knight she disturbed from his slumbers set himself up as her protector.
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