When Lee sees a shooting star, she wishes for a boyfriend to take her to the disco. She gets her wish in a most unexpected manner – the shooting star is a starship crashing, and the alien, from the planet Blupo, assumes human form to take her to the disco!
Special complete story. Rachel Ward wants to get Jake to notice her. Fate, in the form of accidents for both Rachel and Jake, gets them together.
Susie Jones’ new best friend Julie fancies her older brother Steve. But Steve currently has a date and Susie is trying to keep this secret from Julie as she is scared they will fall out over it.
Dianne Moore falls for Paul Peters, the boy next door, but he does not take any notice of her except as a nuisance. Dianne tries to get closer to Paul by looking after his younger brother Terry. But Terry is a little horror. His tricks keep getting Dianne into trouble and each time, she drops lower in Paul’s opinion.
Claire Ramsay finds her new neighbour, Elaine Benson, a bossy sort and hates her. But she fancies Elaine’s brother Steve and is trying to find a way to get him to notice her, including trying to do it through Elaine. This gets Claire into a lot of scrapes, such as dyeing her hair green to impress Steve – only to find he is colour blind and all she does is get herself into trouble at home and school. Matters come to a head when Elaine finds out about Claire fancying her brother and tries to use it blackmail Claire into helping her cheat at a test. When a teacher foils the cheating (without realising), Elaine maliciously reveals Claire’s secret.
Bonnie Martin always takes an interest in the sports and hobbies of her boyfriends. But this gets her into all sorts of scrapes such as a black eye from squash and dropping weights on her latest boyfriend’s foot.
A series of short stories revolving around romance. Each story had its own title.
A Bit Green – Katie Brannon is happy when a recycling project brings her to Simon’s house. She keeps using recycling as an excuse to call over to his house, in the end he comes to visit her and she realises she didn’t have to make excuses to see him.
Brothers – Kim Mark was going round to see Tanya Thomson, the new girl who had just moved to town. When she meets her brother Luke, she likes him but doesn’t know how he feels about her.
Star Wars – Zoe and Terry both like the same guy, Rob. Although Zoe gets a date with him first, Terry uses his belief star-signs to go out with her instead.
It Must Be Luv – Judy: #1626 (09 March 1991) – #1635 (11 May 1991)
Penny Masters had ditched her previous boyfriend, nice guy Paul Thomson, and started going out with troublemaker Rick Kelly, instead. At a party, Penny had spotted a girl wearing a necklace exactly the same as the one Rick had just given her for her birthday!
Bad Penny – Judy: #1580 (21 April 1990) – #1588 (16 June 1990)
Brenda Jackson, an orphan, was given a home by her Aunt Louise. But she soon discovered that her aunt, who had suffered an unhappy marriage, was determined Brenda should have nothing to do with boys.
Cora Cupid attended Palowell Comprehensive and prided herself on being a born matchmaker. Sometimes her boyfriend Phil and her friends think she meddles too much but she usually gets results, although not always in the way she expected them!
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