Josie Todd, an unpopular girl, had a rough time living with her aunt and uncle. She was training her uncle’s horse, so that he could be sold to a good home. Though Uncle was interested only in a fat profit. Mrs Weston from the local riding school had been helping Josie with her jumping, but Uncle was becoming more of a bully.
The adventures of a dog named Harvey. In the first story, A New Home for Harvey, after being abandoned, Harvey finds a new home with Pat and her family but then they have to move to an apartment complex that doesn’t allow pets. The family try and find a new home but Harvey is determined to stay with Pat.
In Here’s Harvey, Harvey is trying to help Pat find her sister, Sara, a boyfriend, though it is proving more difficult than they thought.
In A Holiday for Harvey, him and Pat go to work at Sandhill Holiday Camp and Lucy the owner’s grandchild gets quite attached to Harvey.
In Harvey’s Hotel – Harvey and his owner Pat are helping Pat’s sister, Sara, and her husband, Greg, at the hotel they run.
In Harvey – Go Home!, Harvey is dognapped, he escapes but needs to find his way home to Pat. He gets in many adventures on the way.
Other Appearances:
When people mysteriously left the village of Barton, Liz James discovered that they had actually been shrunk to a few inches high and kept prisoner in a model of Barton Village by the sinister Professor Raikes. Liz rescued her friend Ann Carter and they had to decided to keep the truth about Little Barton a secret until they found away to bring all the prisoners back to their proper size.
A sequel, Microgirl appeared in Judy & Tracy where Professor Raikes returns and shrinks Liz and her parents. Liz manages to escape the mobile laboratory where Raikes is keeping them prisoner.
Georgie Knight has a very unusual pet – a baby dragon called Impy.
Amy Miller is thirteen, but small for her age. When photographer Don Dawson mistakes Amy for an eight-year-old, her unscrupulous Aunt Pearl forces her to keep up the deception in order to work as a model. Aunt Pearl even goes as far as to keep Amy underfed in order to stunt her growth and keep her in the primers at school.
In Victorian times, Harriet Bond discovers she is living on borrowed time with an incurable illness. She devotes her remaining time to finding good homes for her brothers and sisters. To make them want to leave her, she pretends to turn hard hearted and unloving.
Jenny Moss’s cousin Paula treats her like a slave, but Jenny tolerates it because she mistakenly thinks Paula saved her life. Jenny is now being considered for a scholarship, which Paula is out to sabotage because she does not want to lose her ‘slave’.
Emma White buys a pack of Happy Family cards but is warned they will bring unhappiness to other families. The warning soon proves right, but getting rid of the cards is not easy.
Shona Baker’s parents have separated and she has to spend four days with each of them in turn. The bitterness between the parents is causing problems and heartache for Shona.
Sue Budge – known as Budgie – is a rising star in professional tennis who ends up going on international tournaments.
