Rhoda Martin’s scientist father invents Pearl, a robot to look after her while he is away. But being a robot, Pearl takes her duties a bit too literally. This leads to all sorts of situations, usually with hilarious results.
When Elaine Dawson acquires an antique mirror, her personality changes for the worse whenever she looks into it. After consultation with Mrs Raynor, Elaine learns that she is becoming possessed by the spirit of an evil witch, Grizelda.
Sally Hunt is taken into Elmbank Children’s Home after the death of the couple who adopted her as a baby and welfare removing her from an abusive stepmother. At the home she discovers that a helper named Bella Rees is her natural mother. Sally decides to keep this secret because she wants Bella to like her for herself first. But problems keep getting in the way.
Lorna Milford has lived in a children’s home ever since she can remember. Then the Whytes and the Blakes arrive, each claiming she is their daughter. Lorna becomes caught in a tug of love between them.
When Black’s Circus breaks up, the cruel Mr Haxby has his eye on buying Jumbo the elephant. Fortunately, he fails. The granddaughter, Jet Black, is now riding Jumbo all the way to a safari park in Cornwall. But Haxby is still determined to have Jumbo and is dogging them at every turn.
Mary Norton becomes a Supergirl! So then why does she sometimes think she’s the unhappiest girl in the world?
Wendy Shuttle’s father was the Mayor of Chasebury and, as her mother was dead, he had appointed schoolgirl, Wendy as Mayoress! Wendy returned in a sequel Wendy’s Top Team where she needed to organise a team of entertainers who would represent the town in a “Top Town” contest.
In the reprint in Tracy the names were changed, so Wendy Shuttle become’s Winnie Watson of Brumington.
Patty Lester was a talented young artist, but one day she did a drawing of a witch that had been bricked up behind a wall in an ancient house. After that Patty’s picture started to cause trouble – as if the spirit of the witch had been released to take revenge!
Unable to pay a bill at a London hotel in Victorian times, orphan Flora Denver slaved in the hotel laundry to pay off her debt. She had found out the secret of the Firebird medallion that she wore. It was the badge of the exiled free people of Irovina, a land now ruled by a tyrant. Flora suspected that Jeanette, a chambermaid at the hotel, was secretly working against the exiles.
Orphan Lucy was posing as Sylvia Waring, who had drowned in an accident. Lucy had made it seem that she herself had drowned instead, and was accepted by Sylvia’s blind author father as his own daughter. Lucy tried to find out as much as possible about Sylvia and her dad’s life, so she wouldn’t be discovered.
