Fatima, the young queen of Alahari, arrives at her English school – without a penny to her name!
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A mischievous ghost causes problems for Gertie Gold, when she goes to a new school.
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A mysterious girl that camps in the Devon moors with her horse, Monarch, and is friends with wild ponies.
Lena Dawson lives on a small farm. Mr Burton, who runs a stable, allows her rides on his ponies. Mr Burton dies when a tree falls on him, and his will leaves the stables to one of the girls who attends his stables, but only to the one who scores the most points in a marathon pony trek using their own horse. Lena doesn’t own a pony, so she uses farm horse Ben, and has to ride him bareback as Ben is too big for a saddle.
Tessa Turner, grows up poor, but has a talent for dance. A meeting with a homeless woman, Rosie, who tells her she is a former ballerina and will teach her to dance, changes her life. She begins to take her lessons on the street, though other people think that Rosie is a con artist, Tessa finds out that she was in truth a famous ballerina, that was believed to have died in a concentration camp during World War II. With her mother and Rosie’s help Tessa gets a place in a dance school and in turn she secures Rosie a job there as a teacher.
Jo-Ann Morton, a rising tennis star, earns the name “Visage Glacial” (Frozen Face) in France after she wins the Europa Junior Tournament while her parents died in a crash and she quickly goes on to compete in another competition. Unknown to all the gossipers, Jo-Ann’s aunt had not told her the news during the match and afterwards told her that her father left lot of debt and embezzled money from a children’s home, so she would need to compete to earn her keep and to make her her father’s good name wasn’t ruined.
Jo-Ann plays but she no longer has a love of the game, and never showing happiness on her face only builds her Frozen Face reputation. Her aunt continues to exploit and blackmail her. She makes a friend with Sir Sam Haigh, a millionaire mill owner, but due to his appearance her aunt Maud thinks he’s a commoner. Finally having a friend to confide in Sam helps clear her father’s name and expose the real culprit, her Aunt Maud. Free from her, Jo-Ann can finally begin to live her life again and play tennis for her own enjoyment.
Trudy Ross earns the nickname “Trudy Ten-Legs” as she’s hardly ever seen without her uncle’s two horses, Chief and Hero. When her uncle (who she lives with) dies, she has to figure out a way to keep the two horses. Avoiding authorities, she finds places to stay and begins earning money by taking part in competitions. She takes on two hunt dogs and finds friends that help her, providing food. She runs into trouble with two snobby girls, who are not happy with a scruff winning competitions.
When Chief is sick, to save him she turns herself in and gets sent to an Approved School with Hero, but while Chief has recovered from illness he is pining for Trudy and Hero, so she runs away to reunite with him. When she stops a girl, Maude, from whipping her horse, the police catch up with her. Her day in court turns to her favour, as Maude’s father, a lawyer, actually is appalled by his daughter’s behaviour and comes to Trudy’s defense. Due to confusion over her leap year birthday, Trudy is proved to be 16 and therefore she could leave school when she wants. She goes on to get job at stable with Mr Grampton, the owner of the hunt dogs and a helper to Trudy, and then she becomes junior top show jumper.
Ruby Morrow’s father, Professor Morrow, leads an expedition into the African jungle to find a mysterious tribe known as the Ghost Tribe because they seem to appear out of nowhere and vanish again. When he disappears, everyone thinks he is dead except Ruby, and with the help of a man called Big Fella, she takes a motorboat on the river to find him. They catch an English-speaking girl called Mosa in their camp, and discover she has items belonging to Ruby’s father. They are caught by the Ghost Tribe and taken prisoner, but they escape before they are killed. Ruby finds her father, who was being kept prisoner to sacrifice to the Ghost Tribe idol. They rescue him and escape. The father sends in an armed party in helicopters to deal with the Ghost Tribe.
Friends, Gina Wood and Wendy Hall both fancied Dave Bell. When Dave asked Wendy out, Gina was pleased for her friend. But, Dave’s nasty sister, Marsha, got hold of some letters Gina wrote, but never sent, saying how much she liked Dave, and was using them to blackmail Gina.
When Rosie Webb moved with her parents to a small country town, she went exploring a local castle which was being demolished. When Rosie took home one of the castle stones as a keepsake, she discovered that Bessie, a ghostly kitchen maid, had followed her, determined to become her servant.
