This book isn't my favourite in the series. I struggled to read it the first few times i picked it up. Why does Billabong need a new character? Didn't we get that when Tommy and Bob were introduced in Back to Billabong?

This book centres mostly on Bill, a young boy who's sent to Billabong because the people looking after him can't do so. Bill is understandably apprehensive about being shipped off to another place, and acts out when he arrives. Things build up and after somehow dyeing his hair green (Anne Shirley did this better and more believably), he sees that he's in the wrong and changes his attitude.

There are really good elements in this book, and there are really bad ones. It takes forever to get to the point and then speeds up too fast so that by the time you reach the end, you're confused. I know Mary Grant Bruce wrote this book after suffering a personal tragedy (her son died from a gunshot wound) so maybe that's why this book feels so disjointed.