Thirteen year old Terry Brooks had been unjustly accused of cheating, stealing and causing trouble in her town of Milborough. Her parents were beginning to believe the worst, and Terry was worried and puzzled. What she didn’t know was that the real culprit was her exact double!
Sally Johnson had been watching television when she was affected by a hypnotist on screen. Now every time she heard a snap of the fingers, she believed she had star quality and was expert on whatever was going on around her.
Helen Dawson, a scholarship pupil, was the only girl at St Matilda’s without a pony. But now Helen had a place in the school jumping team, riding her friend’s pony—much to the annoyance of jealous Sybil Franks.
Peggy Shaw, affectionately called Smiley by the staff was a long-term patient in the children’s ward at St Martin’s Hospital. Peggy was always willing to give the staff a helping hand and took a warm-hearted interest in the other patients
After visiting the Dead Man — a weird coastal rock shaped liked the body of a man — Della Rowe found that all her wishes were granted… but in a way which always caused harm to someone! Then Della discovered that the only way to prevent these wishes from coming true, was to carry a carnation.
Lonely was a stray dog who had been looking for a loving owner and a good home. But so far his search had met with no success.
Susan Boyd worked as a dressmaker for Mrs Leach, who owned a dress stall in the local market and ran a squalid workhouse in a slum house, where several other homeless children worked and lived like slaves. When Susan tries to smuggle out a message for help, Mrs Leach punishes her by locking her in a dark cupboard. Following this, Susan pretends she has broken and starts acting as compliant toady to Mrs Leach, but she is using this to secretly help the slaves.
Fourteen year old, Magdalen Dennion was convinced that her father, who had lost his memory, was the rightful heir to Sedley Hall, the big house where she worked as a housemaid. Once, when looking at a painting or Sedley Hall, Mr Dennion had said, “This is your home …”—and so started Magdalen on the search for her father’s family. However, a man claiming to be the missing heir, Sir Richard Sedley, had appeared and was instantly accepted as genuine by old Lady Sedley, whose sight was bad. Discovering that the man calling himself Sir Richard was an impostor, Magdalen realised that he would go to any lengths to keep the fortune that was within his grasp. Magdalen suspected that the butler, Soames, was also in the plot.
Thirteen year old Bonnie Clyde was maid of all work for her Aunt Deirdre, Uncle Terrace and spiteful cousins Marcia and Faye Desmond. Bonnie’s luck seems to be changing when her beautiful voice won a holiday camp talent contest with a group formed with her cousins, though Marcia and Faye saw themselves as the stars.
Patty Power received a strange signal from Outer Space through an old television set. After seeing the signal, Patty was able to bend metal objects—by merely thinking about it! Patty became a local celebrity.
