During World War II, the Sparrow family were sent from London to stay in the countryside at “The Grange”. But the Sparrow children felt they would prefer to take their chances with air-raids in London then stay with the bad-tempered couple Mr and Mrs Travers who owned The Grange.
Betsy Paige found six beautifully gowned dolls on the beach near her Aunt Maud’s home. She didn’t know that the dresses were exact copies of secret designs from a famous Paris fashion house and that they had been flown to England so that Charles Benson, a manufacturer of cheap dresses could make a profit by copying them.
Mr Benson had enlisted his employee Samuel Daker to track down the lost dolls. Daker had manage to steal 2 doll from Betsy’s room, wheat he didn’t realise was that Betsy had dressed some of the dolls in dresses she had made herself!
Flora Delaney loves flowers and wishes to find a job where she can work with them, it doesn’t prove easy though. When she gets a job at Wildwood Studios being trained in flower arranging, after she gets in fight with another girl, Hilary, who accuses Flora of tampering with her vase, they are both fired. She gets another job working a flower counter in a department store, but when she is honest to a customer that the flowers she picked won’t grow outside and loses a sale, the manager gets mad and moves her to hardware counter.
Miss Crane and her assistant Miss Leslie run a holiday school set up in a field under a tent, and is known as the School Under Canvas. The girls of Tent 5, including Patsy, Janet and Jackie, have many adventures at the school.
Someone was trying to drive Gina Brown and her mother from their guesthouse at Meadow Mill. Julie Jackson was sure the man responsible was Henry Arnold who was staying at the Mill as a guest, and pretending to be their friend but was actually causing trouble for them. Mr Arnold had found out a new road was to be built near by which would bring new business to the isolated guest house and planned to take it over.
Carina, the gentle princess, leader of the Kindu tribe in Africa, was carried into the jungle by two natives who had orders from Zongu, a war-loving witch-doctor, to kill her. The natives could – not bring themselves to kill her, however, and they left her alone in a distant part of the jungle. There Carina was found by Leyla, a mysterious white girl who had an amazing command over the wild animals. She promised to help Carina.
Monah-Panong-Took-I-Nah came from the wilds of Baffinland to be educated at the exclusive Badley College for Girls in England. Little Mo, was very popular with most of the girls,but two snobs, Cynthia and Iris, hated the girl and wanted to have her expelled along with her pet seal Woolu.
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Winnie Woods is tasked with being a watchdog on Carla Carstairs, a spoiled girl who is on the brink of being expelled from St Wogan’s for misbehaviour. In return, Carla’s father, Sir Horace Carstairs, funds Winnie’s schooling at St Wogan’s. But Winnie finds that being Carla’s watchdog, keeping her out of trouble and foiling her schemes comes at her own expense.
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Jungle Jane built an ark to rescue animals which were stranded in the huge lake formed by a new hydro-electric dam.
One stormy night a baby girl was left on the doorstep of a caravan in Colrain’s Circus. She was brought up by cruel Clem Sykes and his wife, under the name of Janet Sykes. Twelve years later, Janet made friends with Sonia Petrov, a trapeze artiste who had recently joined the circus. Janet didn’t know that Sonia was her real mother, who had come back to try to make amends for what she had done!