Plot:
Lynne Taylor and Debbie Brown, best friends and next door neighbours for all their lives, were told to have nothing to do with each other after their families quarrelled. However, the girls were determined to bring their families together again.
Don’t Talk to Debbie – Judy: #1434 (04 Jul. 1987) – #1447 (03 Oct. 1987)
Complete stories, each representing a sign of the zodiac.
22nd May – 21st June, Geminis are lively and intelligent, but sometimes inclined to be in two minds about things.
Zodiac – Judy: #1268 (28 April 1984) – #1279 (14 July 1984)
Lotty Laing, a boarder at Abbeyfield School, was very shy, but, when she tried to make friends, she couldn’t help seeming snooty and conceited,so nobody liked her. Then she was falsely accused of stealing and ” put on trial ” for the rest of the term. Brenda Brown and her friend,Sharon O’Hara,were determined to make Lotty’s life miserable. Their latest plot had ruined Lotty’s midnight feast.
Lonely Lotty – Judy: #1189 (23 October 1982) – #1197 (18 December 1982)
Plot:
In 1800, Emma Jennings, unaware that she was the true heir to the rich Ferney estate in England, was searching for her foster brother, Tommy, who had been transported to Australia for stealing pheasants’ eggs. She had travelled through the wild bush country with Mrs Hillingdon, her daughter, Amanda, and their armed servants, acting as their maid and cook. The Hillingdons found Emma too useful and wouldn’t let her go, blackmailing her by saying that they would accuse her of stealing her own mule, Ebenezer, if she left in search of her brother.
Search the World Over – Judy: #1131 (12 Sep. 1981) – #1142 (28 Nov. 1981)
Blind Dianne Hart was made a servant when her cousin, Ralph Stone, inherited her late father’s coal-mine. She was horrified when Stone brought in orphans and made the youngest of them work a night-shift underground. She decided on a rescue attempt, hoping to get them to a secret hide-out where three others were already concealed.
The Lost Children – Judy: #932 (19 Nov. 1977) – #945 (18 Feb. 1978)
Plot:
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Jean Smith and Betty Clark were evacuated along with other children to Witchett End. Jean and Betty were billeted in a rambling old house, the home of a strange old widow, Mrs Meggs, whom the villagers held in awe. When a magpie, whom Mrs Meggs called ‘Jack’, stole Jean’s hair-clip, they, too, wondered if they were surrounded by magic and suspected Mrs Meggs was a witch.
The Witch’s Brats – Judy: #915 (23 July 1977) – #926 (08 October 1977)
Plot:
Kim Cartwright realises that Tricia Hudson, who has been living with the family since her parents’ deaths, is faking blindness to get anything she wants. Tricia is also playing dirty tricks to push Kim out and take her place in the family. But Kim cannot prove it because Tricia is too clever to be caught out. The situation reaches the point where the parents decide to send Kim to boarding school.
Plot:
When maidservant Emily Carter is wrongly accused of theft, she runs away in a terrible state and drowns. Emily’s sister Rosie goes into service in the household to unmask the real thief and clear Emily’s name. But the thief rumbles Rosie and starts sending her death threats.
Anita Murray inherits a ghostly butler named Mareton. Only she can see or hear him, unless he wills it otherwise.
Other Appearances:
Sue Talbot has always lived in a town until her widowed mother marries John Felton, the warden of a nature reserve. Sue takes to the reserve. But she and her stepsister Alison hate each other and each is constantly causing trouble for the other.
