Lockie Leonard

Lockie Leonard, surf-rat, arrives in Angelus with his family to discover they're to live in a house that's slowly sinking into a swamp. Then Lockie meets the locals. If it weren't for the great waves, life in Angelus would be looking pretty scary.

It's Lockie's first day of school. After making an enemy of resident bully, Boof, Lockie is an immediate target for all kinds of special treatment. Lockie deals with his newfound attention in a creative way that wins the respect of his classmates.

Mum decides it's time that Lockie learned about puberty, and hands him her Little Green Book, which makes Lockie begin to wonder how other people around him deal with Sex Education.

Lockie mouths-off in Maths class, Mum is called into Old Squasher's office. Mum blames herself. A guilty Lockie vows to make it up to her. At home, Lockie can't help but wonder if life would be easier for Mum, if he and Phillip were born girls.

Lockie questions why Sarge insists on being so 'different'. It's hard enough fitting into a new town, without Sarge drawing attention to the family. Mum would rather a new washing machine, while Phillip would've preferred anything else.

Puberty is like those garden make-over shows: you get a lawn where there wasn't one before. And then, just for fun, they throw in a new water feature. First, he speaks his mind to his grandparents, and then makes a fool of himself in front of Vicki.

Lockie is still an 'Outsider', which is weird because Lockie isn't a rebel - he'd like nothing better than to be 'one of the gang'. John East suggests Lockie join the school football team, a certain passport to social acceptance.

Lockie Leonard is officially a teenager. Do things feel any different? Try: everything! And that morning, after a near-death wetsuit experience, everything changes again. Vicki Streeton kisses Lockie, promising to sort out 'the Details' later.

After his disaster with Vicki, Lockie hibernates in his room for days. Poor Phillip has even broken into a rash. Sarge comes up with a unique, and typically embarrassing solution to the problem. Lockie wonders why his family insists on being so weird.

Suffering from Easter Holiday boredom, Lockie decides it's time to teach Egg how to swim. The boys discover the local river is polluted. Lockie and Egg turn to John East for help, where Lockie discovers Mystery Girl's true identity.

Breaking news about Lockie and Dot is spreading across Angelus like wildfire: Lockie's kissing Dot at the wind farm at five o'clock. Lockie is mortified and just a little bit scared. He can't kiss a girl for the first time in front of the whole town!

Lockie and Egg prepare for their public meeting to help save the river. At first, Lockie's committed to the cause until Dot asks him to surf, that is. With his mind switched to Dot, Lockie neglects his responsibilities and lets everyone down.

Lockie has some problems. First, he's decided to break up with Dot. It's just figuring out 'how', that's tricky. Meanwhile, Mum is acting weird. She's been staring at the TV for days, when it's not even tuned to a channel.

Just when life is finally uncomplicated, Lockie falls for Vicki Streeton all over again and it's driving him to distraction. John East suggests Lockie create a Board Riders Association, to take his mind off girls.

Lockie and Vicki are back on. And unlike before, Lockie takes the public attention in his stride. However, along with his newfound popularity comes new pressure: everyone is wondering what step Lockie and Vicki are up to on the 'Ladder of Love'.

Lockie's getting a big head - and a short fuse. When the dancing challenge is announced, and Lockie realises that he's expected to bust some moves at the upcoming Blue Light Disco, he takes his insecurities out on Phillip.

Lockie is invited to go waterskiing with Vicki and her parents. In reality, he's never skied before. Since this is a chance to spend more time with Vicki and impress her parents, Lockie feels he has little choice but to pretend.

After a misunderstanding with Vicki, Lockie is thrust into a looming altercation with an older bogan. Mum also faces her fears, when Mrs Eggleston asks her to pose for a sculpture.

Lockie is stressed out. Out of the three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, why did Vicki and Phillip have to be born on the exact same day? Sometimes things just happen that are out of your control. Like Mum's battle with her new bread-maker.

Lockie and a bunch of kids from school are off to John East's 'Camp Find Yourself'. It's supposed to be a fun weekend of canoeing and ping pong, but instead, Lockie is forced to make some tough decisions.

Mum is having one of her 'Polka Dot' days. Like Freda the Volvo, sometimes Mum needs a bit of a tune-up. Usually, one day in bed does the job. But it's been three days already, and Mum's not getting any better. The Leonard men are starting to worry.

Mum's still in hospital and it's really starting to take its toll on Phillip: his bedwetting has been getting worse. Lockie takes it upon himself to cheer his little brother up, by entering them in the Annual Angelus Fishing Competition.

With not much else going on in Angelus, the poor, motherless Loopy Leonards have become the preferred conversation topic. It seems everyone's talking about how the Leonards have fallen in a hole, since Mum went into hospital.

Nan and Pop arrive to help out the Leonards, but with Nan's cooking filling the family's stomach with stinky hot gas and Pop's dangerous driving, the grandparents are more of a hindrance.

Lockie ponders the notion of the domino effect: how one small event can trigger a series of other smaller events, leading to big, potentially life-changing results.