Nancy Dallas is forbidden to swim by her father so she enters competitions as Miss X. Though she is able to drop the name when her father becomes her best supporter.
Heather and Isobel Henderson run away from their cruel aunt Gladys and start hiking hundreds of miles to join their father in the Scottish Highlands.
Katy O’Connor is nurse and a good problem solver. She starts out as a student nurse at St. Christopher’s hospital, and goes onto work as a ship’s nurse.
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Cindy Winters has grown up in Oldbank Orphanage, she is a great help with the younger kids at the orphanage. When she is old enough she is given the letter and a photograph that her mother left with her as a baby. The photo is of 4 young girls in costumes and this is the starting point for Cindy to try and track down her mother.
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Wilhelmina Brouwer lives in Holland during World War II. Her father has been imprisoned by the Germans, leaving Willi in charge of the precious blue tulips he took years to develop.
Lorna Drake, is a promising ballet dancer at the Thelma Mayne Dancing School. She doesn’t always have the easiest time, especially when another student Marilyn Molton, becomes jealous of her. She later goes on to have many other adventures, such as when she when she has to dance in secret to help her father with his financial problems, when she finds a mystery in an old theatre claimed to be haunted by the ghost of a ballerina, and when she pretends to be another person to substitute for her in a ballet.
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Sal Lewis lives off Renzil beach, where there is a lot of bird activity. Her father, Fred, runs the nearby Swannery.
Heidi a young Swiss orphan lives with her grandfather on top of the mountain Alm. While the villagers think of him as an ogre, Heidi has seen the kinder side of him. She is happy living with him until her aunt comes to take her away and be a companion with an invalid girl Clara.
Joy Barnes helps out at her father’s farm Sunny Acres. She is a good problem solver and often helps out her neighbours as well.
Dan McCabe’s family are travelling across America to start a new life in Texas. Along the way they make friends with two cowboys, not knowing they are actually bank-robbers. They hide the stolen money in Jill McCabe’s piano, and plan to pick up the money again when the family reach the next town.
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