Carol discovers that her three new friends are in the power of a bully named Wendy Allen. Her hold on the girls is dubbed “Wendy’s web”. Determined to help her friends, Carol turns detective to find out just what kind of hold Wendy has over them.
Someone is playing nasty tricks on Steve. Steve’s girlfriend Nicola turns detective to find the culprit.
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When Mrs Devere, a scientist, moves into Raven’s End (a large house), Rachel Grant finds her a dragon and unfriendly woman who seems to hold her daughter Laura a virtual prisoner. Mrs Devere suddenly becomes friendly to Rachel’s classmates, and soon after they start behaving as if they are brainwashed, acting like strangers, and do nothing but study. It gets worse when Mrs Devere gets a teaching job at Rachel’s school. Then Rachel discovers that Mrs Devere was sacked from her previous school for strange, unethical teaching methods – and Laura is not her daughter.
Paula Travis is a cripple whose disability is exploited by her Aunt Mildred and Uncle Herbert. They force Paula to work as a beggar and profit from her earnings. The exploitation depends on Paula staying crippled – so things begin to change when Paula starts taking secret ballet lessons from Miss Freeman and her legs improve.
Note: this feature was not actually named Jade Jenkins’ Stall. The titles used were individual titles.
Jade Jenkins runs a bring-and-buy stall. Many of her items have a story behind them. Not surprisingly, each story is concerned with why the seller did not want the item and brought it to the stall – which does not make for happy reading. For example:
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Stephanie Jarvis has a curse put on her by Miss Troughton, an old lady who wrongly accused Stephanie of stealing from her. The curse causes an evil double to emerge when Stephanie sleeps, and Stephanie gets the blame for the trouble the double causes.
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Helen Wood wants to be a top figure skater. The mysterious Madame Swenson offers to coach her in return for total dedication. And she means TOTAL – Madame Swenson is an extremely demanding coach.
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Rosie Palmer’s father is made redundant and the family buys a guest house. This causes difficulties for Rosie, including sharing the house with strangers.
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Linsey Townsend has lived a luxurious life and been spoiled. But all that changes when her father runs off with money from his employers’ company and the family bank. Linsey now faces a tougher financial time and learns hard lessons in being more appreciative, helpful and thoughtful. Meanwhile, her mother tries to conceal the truth about Dad’s absence from their friends, keep up appearances, and dreads their secret being found out.
Mercy Green is stricken with a tropical fever and finds herself in an alternate London where life is hard and so are the people. This is because they are ruled and tyrannised by gangs of criminals known as “The Families” in a fascist jack-booted manner.
