In 1898, Mary Morris has a tough time work-wise because her small size is against her. When she does find work she gets the toughest jobs with hard employers.
Cherry Chipchase is daughter of millionaire Samuel Chipchase. Cherry is spoiled and selfish, so in an effort to reform her, Dad sends her to the roughest school in town where she is expected to do Saturday Duty, and stops her allowance.
While on holiday Jenny Harris and her brother Rex enter a mysterious cave, when Jenny speaks out of turn, Rex turns into a dog! He continues to turning from boy to dog while they try to figure out how to cure him.
While Rex solves his dog problem in a sequel You Little Monkey! , Rex tries on a circus witch-doctor’s monkey mask. From then on he keeps turning into a chimp – usually at the worst possible times!
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Joe and Bertha Castin, caretakers of Kenwood Hall, take Evvy Collins from a fairground and start training her up to impersonate Lady Evelyn, who mysteriously disappeared seven years ago at the age of five, so they can claim the Kenwood fortune. But the deception is not going well, and things get even more tangled when Evvy begins to find clues as to her real identity.
A car accident kills Jane Carlton’s father and leaves her with a scarred face that she is very sensitive about, and she a long wait for the plastic surgery to fix the problem. Jane’s sensitivity about her face is causing problems at her new locality and school. More problems arise when Mum falls for Roger Kemp and Jane realises he is dodgy.
Kate Masters’ father, a famous scientist, goes on the run after being wrongly accused of espionage. Kate promises her father that she will continue her skating, but it is not proving easy, and he has to find ways to secretly help her while evading the police.
Gail Hayley has a companion that only she can see and hear – her guardian angel.
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The four Carson sisters – Wendy, Joan, Lucy and Beth – have been in a Children’s Home for years because nobody would agree to take all four of them. Then Mrs Niberdy agrees to foster them all. But when the sisters arrive at their new home, a mystery begins because the house is creepy and neglected-looking. The mystery deepens even more when the girls find Mrs Niberdy is nowhere in sight – just a note saying she has gone away – and nobody but themselves seems to be there. So they dub Mrs Niberdy “Mrs Nobody”. They stay on in the house anyway because they do not want to go back to the Home, and pretend Mrs Nobody is there. But strange things start happening which suggest Mrs Nobody may not be as absent as she seems.
Linda Lyall is sent from a Children’s Home to the wealthy Hampton family. By mistake they think she is blind and she takes advantage of this to play on their sympathy.
Pauline Pratt finds a ventriloquist’s dummy, Little Lord Percival, but discovers he is evil and causes a lot of trouble that she gets the blame for. Eventually she realises that Lord Percival is possessed by the spirit of Fred Vernon-Vaisley (“Vernon the Valet”), a ventriloquist with a difficult, quarrelsome personality. Vaisley’s personality led to his “sad end” after a quarrel with a fellow performer, Mr Grantley, and now Lord Percival is out for revenge on Mr Grantley.
