Jane Allander’s paralysed right hand is cured by the insertion of a tiny electronic device. Unknown to anyone, Dr Krull, an enemy of its inventor, is controlling it, causing Jane a lot of unhappiness. Because her parents sell their house to pay for the operation, Jane doesn’t tell them about the problems she is having.
Orphans, Valerie Dean and Teresa Jones, are determined to remain great friends for ever. But when they are fostered, they discover that their families are bitter enemies. Val and Terry, are sent to separate schools, and when both are picked for the athletic teams, they are determined not to compete against each other.
Nine year old orphan Beauty Burns runs away from a Children’s Home where nobody likes her because she is beautiful. She meets on the moors a fierce-faced, ugly monster, Ug and befriends him.
The Barret family were “going up in the world.” First Mr Barret gained promotion at work —then Mrs Barret decided that they should take a larger house the country, as the next step up the ladder. Seventeen-year-old Laura Barret was all in favour of the change, but twelve-year-old Una wasn’t so happy. In their new house she found ten bottles hidden away, each time she opened one it caused whoever was exposed to the perfume to behave in strange ways…
(Ten Green Bottles – 1970)
(Ten Green Bottles – 1977, art: Guy Peeters)
Young Diane Starr was brought up on a small island off the Scottish mainland by a cold, mysterious guardian whom she knew only as Zara. Although Zara’s eye-sight was very poor, she trained Diane to be a brilliant tennis player. When she felt Diane could learn no more from her, Zara took the young girl to the mainland to compete in the West of Scotland Senior Championships.
Pam Thorpe had bought an innocent-looking glass ball in an antique shop and was shocked to discover that the ball could reveal what other people were actually thinking!
Sandra Peach was tricked by Kaye, her younger sister, into entering a beauty contest which, much to her surprise. she won! Sandra agreed somewhat reluctantly to enter more contests, but only on condition that her university studies didn’t suffer.
When fifteen-year-old Pam Potter’s mother had an accident, Pam was left to run their hairdressing business, “Pigtail Corner”, single-handed. It was vital that Pam should make the shop a success, as she and her mother had spent all their savings on starting it.
Roberta Shaw was a policewoman who looked so young she could pass for a schoolgirl – and she was known as “Babyface Bobbie”. Bobbie became a “pupil” at Rowdown Academy so she could act as a secret bodyguard for Karen Kronor, the spoilt daughter of the President of Translavia.
When the matron of Sunnydale Orphanage was injured in an accident if looked as if the girls’ holiday at Sandbay, would be cancelled. The girls, led by Jan Martin, were experts at winning trophies and prizes, and when Mrs Creech and her daughter, Lobelia, heard of this they offered to look after the girls, intending to keep the prizes for themselves.
