The story of a doll with a defect searching for a home, told from the doll’s point of view.
Katy Brent lives at Cornation Flats where her father works as caretaker. She often helps out her neighbours with problems they have.
Eleven-year-old Myra Gold is the secret owner of the Paladin Junior Ballet School and is enjoying her lessons there. Any time Myra need help her problems are always solved and she hears a mysterious voice which she believes is her dead mother’s.
Di Thomas wants to become a table tennis champion in order to earn money for a costly operation for her aunt Edith.
Dulcie Starr and her wheelchair bound sister, Bella are the only survivors of an Indian raid and hoped to complete their journey to their uncle in Sweet Water Valley on foot.
Teresa is carried off and raised by a wolf as a baby. Years later her father finds her and brings her home, hoping he can make her act like a normal girl.
Winnie Johnson a poor girl from London did not know she is the daughter of Lord Marvon, the owner of the house she know works as a servant in. She was the result of a previous secret marriage of Marvons.
During an uprising in Lutzenstein, the baby princess Wilhelmina is hidden with a foster family. Years later, when peace is restored the foster mother presents her own daughter Mimi as the princess as the real princess died during a plague.
Tansy Tomkins and Marmaduke Ponsonby come from very different backgrounds but they both want to be ice skating champions. Their trainer Rolf decides to team them up, but their mothers are constantly fighting.
Sal was born on a tiny island off the coast of Cornwall, she owns the only ferry that keeps the island connected to the mainland. If the ferry stops running the island becomes the property of rich Silas Martin. Sal is determined not to let this happen.
