Jackie Johnson pretends to be a humanoid robot, Shena (Simulated-Humanoid-Electro-Newtronic-Automation) to save her scientist father from ruin. “Shena” is designed to protect wealthy Daphne Richmond, but Daphne gets kidnapped. Meanwhile, Daphne’s chauffeur Andrew discovers Jackie’s secret, and then two “robots” attempt to rescue Daphne.
Karen Day’s mother has an evening job and now her father has been forced to change to the night shift, leaving the Day children on their own in the evenings. Dawn, the eldest, is supposed to be in charge, but is unsuited for the job because she is scatterbrained and this causes things to go wrong. Dawn’s younger sister Karen takes the blame because she does not want her parents to worry about Dawn’s incompetence, but this keeps getting her into trouble with them.
Toni Dixon’s parents are divorced. She lives with her mother during the week and her father, stepmother Diane and baby William at weekends. This is causing problems, even at Christmas.
Ella Conway’s family had always been keen on horses. Her older sister, Delia, had shared their parents interest in dressage, while Ella preferred races and jumping. But after Delia was killed in an accident, her mother and father persuaded Ella to try riding Delia’s dressage pony, Silver Dream, in her place. Ella felt she would be forced to become just Delia’s shadow, and she vowed not to let this happen. She would secretly train the aloof, elegant pony to jump!
When her parents were tragically killed in a car crash, young Roma Peters went to live with her mean aunt and uncle. Roma soon learned her relatives had only given her a home in order to get their hands on her inheritance. They were furious to learn they would only get a small monthly sum for Roma’s keep. Roma was a keen ice skater but when she discovered there was no ice rink in her new home town, she turned to roller skating to keep her spirits up.
In Victorian times, Lucy Seaton takes a skivvy’s job at Marlowe Seminary for Young Ladies to secretly glean as much education as she can in order to sit a scholarship that she promised her dying parents she would do her best to win. But she has to contend with the tough skivvy life, spiteful snobby schoolgirls and hard senior staff.
Twins Amy and Lesley Carter get tired of people treating them exactly the same, right down to giving them identical birthday cards and presents. They set out for some individuality and hope people get the message and stop treating them identical just because they are twins.
Belinda Stewart is blind, but also a talented singer. Her managers are Gloria and Keith Foxton, who promise her she will make enough money to receive a cure from a famous American doctor. But in fact the Foxtons are out to pocket any money Belinda makes for themselves.
A weird old lady passes on a strange power to Susie Green. When Susie sneezes, whatever wish she makes at the time comes true. But this causes problems because Susie sneezes a great deal as she has so many allergies, and the heat of the moment has her wishing things she doesn’t mean.
Text story. Lara Dennis and her mother move to a poorer part of town. Lara pretends to be from a wealthier area to impress her new, snobby classmates and gets caught in a tangle of lies.
