In Victorian times, when orphan Betty Deakin discovers that she is ill, and has only a short time to live, she sets out to find good homes for her younger brothers and sisters.
Eleven year old, Lil Parkin along with her family travel down from London to Kent for hop-picking season.
Sarah Grey’s father was lost at sea after a cliff-top car crash. but Sarah was convinced that he was still alive. Strange messages flashed into her mind, seeming to come from him. While Sarah followed these clues, her Uncle Bert and Aunt Winnie were close behind. Sarah had lived with them after the accident, and they planned to make a lot of money from her strange mental powers.
The Paton twins had just moved to a new home in Bexley Park, about twenty miles from London. Jackie was a keen athlete, but Jill didn’t care for sport at all although she was a natural athlete.
Susie Carter’s Mum couldn’t resist a bargain—and Susie usually ended up sorting out the trouble they caused!
When Old Bart dies he leaves everything to his adopted Eskimo daughter, Monakapanik or Mo for short. Mo thinks this means she will be in charge of his general store in the Canadian Arctic and is surprised to find out Old Bart was actually a knight and wealthy man. She goes to England to stay with his relatives in England, who were not so happy about it.
Harriet Potts had a good chance of winning the schools tennis championship for Greystones School—providing she could be prevented from overeating. Emma Hale, Harriet’s friend, had been given the job of keeping Harriet away from food. It was hard work, but Emma eventually got Harriet as far as the final.
Kate likes to collect things, she always finds a new thing to collect that ends up causing some humorous situations.
Daisy March, a fourteen-year-old year-old orphan, who lived at Sunnyvale Children’s Home, had been abandoned as a baby, and she got her name because she was found in March with a daisy chain round her neck. It was discovered that Daisy’s name had never been registered, so she decided to choose her own. She had found, however, that living up to the meaning of the names she had chosen was not very easy.
Humorous strip about a girl Betty and her adventures babysitting.
