• Over the Sea to School (1950)
• A School in Danger (1950)
• At School in Skye (1957)

• The Wood Street Secret (1968)
• The Wood Street Group (1970)
• The Wood Street Rivals (1971)
• The Wood Street Helpers (1973)
• Away from Wood Street (1976)
• Wood Street and Mary Ellen (1979)
• Strangers in Wood Street (1980)
• Growing Up in Wood Street (1982)

• Crow's Nest (1974)
• Pine Street Pageant (1978)
• Pine Street Goes Camping (1980)
• Pine Street Problem (1981)
• Goodbye to Pine Street (1982)
• Alone at Pine Street (1982)
• Friends at Pine Street (1984)
• Pride of Pine Street (1984)
• First Term at Ashgrove (1988)

• The Crumble Lane Adventure (1983)
• Trouble in Crumble Lane (1984)
• The Crumble Lane Captives (1986)
• The Crumble Lane Mystery (1987)

• Ballet for Drina - Drina meets her lifelong friend Jenny Pilgrim, who introduces her to the world of ballet lessons. For an unknown reason, Drina's grandmother forbids her to learn ballet, but Drina perseveres until her grandmother gives in. We meet many characters who stay friends with Drina throughout the series, especially Jenny Pilgrim, Drina's best friend. After learning dancing with Janetta Selswick in Willerbury, Drina then moves with her grandparents to London but is denied further dancing lessons. Drina decides she must dance, even without her grandparents' blessing and learns behind their backs, until events collide and her grandmother is forced to see that some things cannot be stopped. Drina is granted an audition for the Dominick Ballet School, then finds out days before her audition that her mother was the great ballerina, Elizabeth Ivory. Drina decides that she doesn't want anyone to know of her famous ancestry so that she can succeed on her own.

• Drina's Dancing Year - Drina successfully auditions for the Dominick School. We meet Rose, who becomes Drina's best friend in London. At the end of the year, Drina gets a dancing/acting role in a West End play.

• Drina Dances in Exile (Published as Drina Dances Alone in the USA) - Drina leaves the Dominick School because her grandparents go abroad. Initially unhappy at being forced into 'exile' in the countryside at the Dominick's boarding school, Chalk Green, she becomes happier when her good friend Rose receives a scholarship to attend there as well. The film of 'The Breton Wedding' is revived, which Drina and Rose see in London. The experience of seeing her mother is so strange that Drina ends up confessing to Rose that her mother was Elizabeth Ivory.

• Drina Dances in Italy (Published as Drina Dances on Stage in the USA)- We are introduced to Ilonka and the Lorencz family, who are refugees that have escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. Igor Dominick Jr. moves from Paris to live with his father. He causes a stir at the Dominick School. Drina goes to Italy to meet her father's family and ends up dancing with the Dominick there, along with Emilia from Chalk Green and Igor Jr.

• Drina Dances Again - A sprained ankle at the start of term forces Drina to stop dancing for a month. This gives her the opportunity to play the role of Margaret in Dear Brutus (J.M. Barrie) for a short run in the West End. That summer Drina and Rose are chosen to dance in The Nutcracker as 'Little Clara' with the Dominick Company at the Edinburgh Festival. Igor Dominick Snr. and Marianne Volanaise discover that Drina is Ivory's daughter, but agree to continue keeping it a secret. Long time rivals from Willerbury days, Daphne Daniety leaves the Dominick School.

• Drina Dances in New York - Drina's grandparents take her on a trip to New York, travelling on a cruise ship where they meet the Rossiters and their son Grant, who features throughout the rest of the series. On the ship, she meets a dancer suffering from stage fright and choreographs her first short ballet.

• Drina Dances in Paris - Some members of the Dominick School act, dance and sing in the play 'The Land Before Christmas'. Drina's ballet she made in New York is danced at the Dominick Matinee. Christine Gifford is expelled from the Dominick School after being caught bullying some of the Juniors and Drina. Drina and Rose are asked to go to Paris to dance in The Nutcracker once again after the dancer playing 'Little Clara' is injured. Grant shows up in Paris.

• Drina Dances in Madeira - Rose returns to the Dominick School, joined by others from Chalk Green who have also come. Drina acts in the play 'Diary of a Dancer' based on the story of the Lorencz family. Drina's grandfather becomes seriously ill in hospital, and the Chesters go on holiday to Madeira where Drina dances with the Lingeraux Company at a festival in Funchal. At the end of the book, Mrs Chester tells Drina that they are moving to the Italian part of Switzerland for the winter and that Drina will be going with them.

• Drina Dances in Switzerland - Drina is sent to a stuffy finishing school in Switzerland where she can not dance.

• Drina Goes on Tour - Drina's secret ancestry is out and all the media want to meet her. She goes on tour with the Dominick. At the end of the book Grant turns up in London.

• Drina Ballerina - The story begins with Drina visiting Jenny at her farm. Jenny was married in the previous book (Drina Goes on Tour) and has just given birth to a daughter, Mary Andrina. Jenny and Drina talk about their lives and some of the distance that had crept between them is erased. Drina dances for Jenny in the apple orchard, and Jenny remembers her predictions about Drina's future when they were children. Drina returns to London and meets up with Grant. While the two are cooking dinner in Drina's grandparents' flat, Drina finally tells Grant that she will marry him. She had been putting him off for months, hoping to "get" somewhere in the Dominick company before they married. The set the wedding date for a few months in the future, in April.

Notes

• Web Page on collecting Mabel Esther Allan books, with bibliography
• Web Page on Mabel Esther Allan with full bibliography
• Fidra Books website