Always Identical Twins: Ruby and Garnet. Averted in The Butterfly Club where triplets Tina, Maddie and Phil are not identical because Tina is considerably smaller than the other two. Gemma and Alice have known each other all their lives, but when Gemma reads Alice's diary at a sleepover, it eventually leads her to discover Alice is to England moving. Because of their distance, Gemma and Alice struggle to stay friends, with the possibility of each other making new friends. The story's theme throughout the whole story is that true friends will be together until the end.

Adaptation Distillation: The first book of Hetty Feather spends half the story about Hetty's life in her foster home and later, her return to the Foundling Hospital at age five before the Time Skip. The show however, gives a small introduction in the first episode before focusing entirely on her current life in the hospital. This changes at the end of Series 3 when she, Gideon, and Sheila leave the hospital for their services. Even the Guys Want Him - Midnight: "All the girls at my school are in love with Will. And some of the boys." Breakout Character - Hetty Feather, who has overtaken Tracy Beaker as Wilson's best known/most popular character. Word of God even states that Hetty is her favorite character. Miss Hope in Rent-a-Bridesmaid, though she prefers to keep her private life separate from her role as a teacher, is very kind and understanding towards Tilly. After Megs dies in Clover Moon, the priest at her funeral exclusively refers to her by her full name of Margaret Anne Moon. Clover is confused for a while since she never thought of her by any name other than Megs.Ironic Name: Prudence in Love Lessons, who is pretty much anything but a prude. Her teacher lampshades this. Similarly, her sister Grace is not particularly graceful. In Baby Love, Laura gets pregnant after (technically) a one night stand with her baby's father. Due to the values of the time period, she doesn't quite understand what sex is or how pregnancy happens (exacerbated by the conception happening in a dark closet space so she couldn't properly see what was happening.) She believes they basically just made out, and is ignorant of what really happened until her pregnancy becomes obvious to others. Hippie Parents: In Amber, Amber was raised in a commune by her hippie mother and is still there even though the '60s are long over. She is desperate for a "normal" home and lifestyle, which drives a lot of the story's conflict. One-Steve Limit: Averted in different books - in both Queenie and Wave Me Goodbye, the protagonists mention they are bullied by an Alpha Bitch. Both characters are called Marilyn, and their surnames both start with H, and they both serve the same purpose. Will sews up all of Violet's fairies in Midnight after she destroys them during an argument, then hangs them up in a tree outside her window.

Market-Based Title: Elsa, Star of the Shelter was changed to The Bed and Breakfast Star in reprints, to reflect the change in accommodation offered to families like Elsa's. The Alcoholic: Averted in Love Frankie when Frankie's mother falls over in front of all the high school students and they assume she's been drinking. She actually suffers from MS, which affects her muscles, but she asks Frankie not to tell anyone, so everyone continues to think it was caused by drunkenness. Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": In The Worst Thing About My Sister, Marty creates a superhero named "Mighty Mart", which is clearly based on herself. In Love Lessons the underage main characters bears the brunt of the blame for her illicit relationship with a teacher...who avoids an investigation and keeps his job despite pursuing a romantic relationship with a very sheltered and socially awkward fourteen year old. To be fair, Prue lied about how much he reciprocated to protect him and it worked.In The Dream Palace Lolly has an affair with Greg: an adult who's illegally "squatting" in an abandoned building and walks out on his previous girlfriend for her. He then stabs and seriously wounds her stepfather, forcing Lolly to go on the run with Greg, who suggests she become a prostitute to bring in money. The situation becomes so unbearable for Lolly that even though she still believes she loves Greg, she ends up handing him over to the police just to be able to return to a normal life. Clover Moon, Rose Rivers, and The Lottie Project all contain examples of this due to large families being common in the Victorian era. Astral Projection - Important to the plot of The Other Side, although it's left open to the reader as to whether it's real or just in the heroine's imagination.

The Hetty Feather TV series also expands on the lives of the boys in the show and gives focus on other characters, as opposed to everything focused on Hetty like in the book. Handicapped Badass - Mary in Take a Good Look, a partially sighted teen who escapes armed robbers holding her hostage. National Stereotypes: Referenced and averted in Secrets when India says that you might think her au pair, who's Australian, would be cheerful, suntanned and outgoing. She is actually sullen, pale-skinned and doesn't like talking to anyone - usually leaving India alone to do what she likes. Gemma's grandfather invites her to accompany him on a trip to Scotland when he is hired to taxi a client from Scotland to London. Upon arrival at Alice's new house the two share a happy reunion and Gemma is allowed to stay for the day. However, Gemma grows insecure when Alice is excited to show off her new pink bedroom and large house. Later in the day, Gemma meets Alice's new friend Flora Hamilton, who is a classmate to Alice at her new school as well as her new ballet class. Gemma is intimidated by Flora's friendship with Alice and approval from Alice's mother (including when Flora lies about Alice saying Gemma's family are "quite poor" regarding how a china doll came to fruition - Gemma's late grandmother left the doll to her, which she later gave Alice). When the cake Gemma has made and brought is presented at dinner, Alice requests that she and Gemma cut the cake together and make their traditional wish. When Alice's mother gives Flora the knife instead, Gemma finally snaps and shoves the cake in Flora's face. Leans more towards the positive however; Andy starts getting along much better with her step-siblings (especially Graham), befriends a kind elderly couple- who serve as surrogate grandparents in her life, and even welcomes her new half-sister into her life!Good Parents: Happily, there are just as many examples as abusive ones, such as Jo, Charlie's mother, in The Lottie Project; Floss's dad in Candyfloss; Beauty's mother Dilly in Cookie; Katy's father in Katy. Realistically this doesn't mean that they get on all the time, or that their children never have bad experiances, but all are shown to be dedicated parents who support and care for their kids physically and emotionally.