Just after Tanya Taylor was born on the lovely island of Tongo, her parent’s were killed. But their native nanny brought the girl up as if she were her own child until she was ten. Then Tanya went to England to be educated.
Lara Kent is uprooted from her moorland home after her grandmother dies and sent to live with her aunt and uncle in London. Lara finds city life too noisy and thinks the people are selfish as they don’t care for wildlife. After she finds some fox cubs whose mother was killed, she sets up a refuge for sick animals in her shed.
When her private school, St Celia’s, closed, Jane Morrison had to transfer to Canning Street, the local comprehensive. Everything there seemed very different to Jane, and her first few days had gone very badly.
Wendy Wild had been brought up by her grandfather in a lonely woodland cottage. When her grandfather died, she was given a home by her Aunt Allie and cousin Kay. But Wendy found life away from the woods very strange