In this, the second book in the series concerning two schoolboys growing up in Leeds in the 1950s, we find Neil and Billy continuing to regard the area between Woodhouse Ridge and Woodhouse Moor as an adventure playground. They still face many challenges, however, which have to be dealt with. They attempt to cope admirably with such issues as disappearing headmasters, ghostly encounters, the arrival of a new school bully and the temporary closure of the local picture house, but will the humiliation of being forced into taking Scottish dancing lessons prove to be one ordeal too many for the Woodhouse boys?