Cover -- About The Book -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Jack's Island map -- The Ferry Ride -- Up the Hill to Work -- Introducing Mr Palmer -- Introducing Dafty -- The Grenade -- The Grenade and the Army -- Making a Hill Trolley -- Racing the Trolleys -- A Scandal Brewing -- The Dance at the Barracks -- The Fight -- Dafty Crashes the Truck -- Dafty Assaults Mr Palmer -- Banjo and Modern School -- Dafty Gets Taken Away -- Mr Palmer Announces the News -- Mr Paterson Objects to Mod -- Uncle Alf's Letter -- Mr Palmer ThreatensMr Paterson -- Jack and Banjo Build a Canoe -- Sailing the Canoe -- Dad Thanks the Jansens -- Test-firing the Guns -- The Jap Soldier Living Wild -- Merv Purvis and the Red-back -- The US Commander -- Dafty'sMum -- The Funeral -- The Cricket Match -- Dad Leaves for the Mainland -- Ghosts -- Patricia Goes Missing -- Mum Thanks Mr Isaacs -- Dad Comes Home -- Little Eric Returns -- Campbell Settles It -- Banjo and the BB Gun -- Banjo's Letter -- Bess Leaves -- The Barge Fire -- Christmas -- Banjo Leaves -- Return to Perth -- Acknowledgements -- Also by Norman Jorgensen -- Copright Page.