When twelve year old Jacinda, a scullery maid from over a hundred years before, was found frozen solid in an old ice house at Sally Master’s new home, Sally and her parents decided to pass her off as a cousin, re-naming her Jackie Frost.
Penny Farthing lived in a caravan with her grandfather, who fell ill. A ruthless gypsy girl Eva took advantage of the situation, and was posing as a ventriloquist using Penny as a dummy.
In the year 1851, life was hard for the kids of Grimshaw Orphanage, know to them as Grim Hall. Alice Hawkins and three of her friends had escaped and gone to London, hoping to tell Queen Victoria of their plight.
Shirley Weston had lived at Bunbury Castle where her mother was cook to Sir Charles Merrywill. When Shirley won a scholarship to Rossdene, a private boarding school, she found most of the girls were from wealthy families. When Shirley’s friends mistook her for Sir Charle’s niece, she didn’t deny it, but problems arose when Shirley’s mother took a job as a cook at the school.
Matilda “Matty” Trott had been tricked by her schoolmates into entering a contest to find the Rippley Rosebud. All entrants were to be given tests not just of beauty, but of initiative. The winner would accompany the reigning beauty queen the Rose of Rippley during the forthcoming carnival.
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Orphan Sarah Blane was sure she had found her long lost sister, Martha, working for a mysterious woman called ‘The Duchess’ who ran a school for beggars. Sarah was determined to win the girl’s confidence and affection, so that they could be reunited and live together with Sarah’s guardians. Sarah joins the academy in the hopes of getting close to ‘Martha’.
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Penny Harris had been give a violin that had once belonged to a girl, Pauline Harcourt, who died of a broken heart because she couldn’t master the instrument. Pauline’s unhappy spirit seemed to want Penny to succeed where she had failed. Penny’s parents and teacher were surprised when she began playing like an expert.
Five Edgecombe Girls’ School pupils were stranded in the African jungle after a plane crash. Their tough teacher Miss Hardiman, known as “The Dragon” was determined to lead them to safety.
When Joanne Dolland and her parents moved to the country, Joanne found an ancient metal button which summoned a gnome into her presence. The gnome could grant wishes – but not always in the way Joanne wanted.
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