Laura has trouble owning up and apologising at the same time that the Prime Minister of Australia is making an apoplogy on behalf of the country to her mob.
When he turns up for the try-outs, he finds the team is a closed shop dominated by the captain Brian Hilliard and his father.
Summary: Colum has two big ambitions; to stop his best mate Thommo's family from being kicked out of their house next door to his and to get up the nerve to ride his billy cart down Brick Pits Hill.
After talking her way into tagging along, and wheeling her baby brother in his pram, Bridie sets off for what is meant to be a day of harmless fun and relaxation.
Summary: Bertie wants to raise money to buy a present for his brother Eddie who's coming home from the war and steals his friend's pet rabbit for his magic show.
Summary: Evelyn can't wait for cracker night and this year, for the first time, the family has their own box of fireworks.
Summary: Rowley is convinced that good deeds will be rewarded, he'll do anything to help his mother and the other residents in the boarding house they live in.
Against the advice of his friend, Franklin, Henry conducts his biggest experiment ever… but succeeds only in blowing up the local schoolhouse.
But his machines cause more trouble than they’re worth and after one of them goes berserk, wrecking Franklin’s family’s laundry business, Henry becomes an outcast.
Summary: Minna lives with strict German-born parents who privately hope their young daughter’s friendship with the well-to-do Owen children – Toby, Harold and Adelaide – will do her some good.
Unwisely, Minna helps herself to her friend Leck’s beloved magic lantern to carry out her revenge and soon she is in more trouble than ever.
Summary: Ben’s one wish is for his wandering American family to be able to celebrate a proper Thanksgiving dinner in their new place with a real roast turkey.
But his efforts to earn the money to buy a turkey plunge him into escalating rivalry with a local Chinese boy, Leck.
Summary: When Davey, working as a stable boy for the powerful Owen family, learns that his favourite horse – Duchess – is to be sold to the local tannery, he puts everything on the line to save her.
Davey’s master Mr Owen – the man who ordered Duchess to the tannery – lies shot and possibly dying on a remote road.
Alice’s siblings – Maryann and Little Sam – enter a third pig in the race, a lumbering old sow named Oink.
There’s no end to the sneakiness Alice and George will employ against each other in order to win first prize: a cake baked by Sarah.
In the end, having learnt some unexpected things – about himself and his brother – from the convict, Charles helps the escapee avoid the police by providing him with an hilarious disguise.
As if being bossed around by the lady of the house isn’t bad enough, Sarah has to deal with that woman’s sly and sickly daughter, Alice.
Then Mr Owen, with business to attend to elsewhere, leaves Sam on his own, in charge of the house, the farm and one terrible goat named Katie.
Summary: Dan is on his second patrol to the Botany Bay area when he’s asked to capture a native dog to take back to the colony’s Governor.
Only trouble is, the dog in question – Lapa – belongs to Waruwi, a girl Dan befriended last time he was in the area.
But when a little boy (Mung) goes missing, Barangaroo and Mani are forced to follow his trail into a scary gully ruled by a legendary monster: the Mumuga.