A girl replaces her mother in a stage comedy duo, while she is sick. She can’t let anyone know that she is pretending to be her mother though.
Lily Millar wants to get rid of her freckles, so she enlists the help of Professor Gudge. He makes different potions, but they don’t have the desired effect. They do have other temporary side effects, though, such as giving her super-strength.
On the way to her new boarding school, Linda Laker sees a spaceship and overhears an invasion plan. The aliens place a girl, who is made to look and sound human, in the school. The alien has one defect – it cannot cry. So Linda sets out to find the imposter by making anyone she suspects cry. But this is making her unpopular and getting her into trouble with the headmistress.
In 1911, just before Kate Darby’s grandmother dies, she tells her she has a long lost brother. Kate sets out to find him, earning her living along the way, by singing and playing her treasured accordion in theatre queues.
Cindy Burnett wants to be a tennis champion but she lives with her grandmother who cannot afford to pay for tennis fees and equipment. When Cindy saves a baby’s life, the grateful parents pay her membership for the exclusive Sterling Club. Of course there are some people who don’t want her in the club.
Jonny Comet comes to earth in search of his sister. Slim Fiddler realises Jonny could have a great future as a pop-star and appoints himself as Jonny’s manager. Slim’s niece, Mona, helps to keep Jonny’s identity secret.
Margaret Simpson is a young nurse at Oaklands, an old mansion converted into a country hospital. Margaret kept hearing strange music, played by a mysterious piper. Whenever she heard it, she – and anyone who touched her – found they couldn’t help dancing!
Cara Kemp is staying at her Aunt and Uncle’s while her parent’s are abroad. She finds a mysterious ring in the garden and when she tries it on she is unable to get it off again. Then Cara begins to have strange bouts of moodiness and bad temper.
Mr Carter was stranded on a desert island for eleven years, when he returns his wife has died in a train crash and his baby daughter given to Sunnydale Orphanage. He finds that two girls with red hair survived the crash and were raised in the orphanage. He has taken both girls Rose and Jenny, now 13, on holiday to try and figure out which one is his daughter.
Sue Carter works in the publicity and advertising department of a large London store, Clarrod and Sembridge. She earns the nickname Swinging Sue as she is always so full of life.
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