Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780207199820
Toby Jones and his classmates go to the MCG archives on an excursion and there they meet the old and wise caretaker of the library, Jim Oldfield. Jim realises that Toby has the potential to travel back in time to cricket matches. With Jim's assistance, Toby and his friends are transported back in time to past matches. Ages 8-13.
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730443868
Catch the first three Toby Jones adventures again in a convenient omnibus edition. A huge book for cricket fans, Hat trick combines tons of info about the game with three out-of-this-world toby Jones cricketing adventure stories. toby Jones is not your average schoolboy cricketer. He and his friends live for cricket, but toby's ability to travel through time makes him unique. Using a copy of Wisden, the 'bible' for cricket enthusiasts, toby drops in on the great cricket matches of the past, first in India and then in the West Indies. But at the 1930 test at Leeds where Don Bradman bats his legendary 334, toby gets unexpectedly involved in the match. Packed with tips from Brett Lee, one of Australia's fastest-ever bowlers, Hat trick offers hours of top reading ... and the inside edge on Australia's most loved sport. Hat trick includes: toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack toby Jones and the Secret of the Missing Scorecard toby Jones and the Mystery of the time-travel tour
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730444619
It's not just a game - it's time travel - and this time it's back to Lords. toby Jones returns in another exciting story of time travel and cricket. toby Jones is not your average cricket fan. It's not his passion for the game that makes him unusual - it's his ability to travel through time, back to the great matches of the past. Just when toby thought his time-travel adventures were all over, he has to make another journey, and this time it's going to be dangerous. With the help of his mentor and fellow time traveller Jim Oldfield, toby must travel to the famous cricket ground Lords in England to visit Father time so he can save his friend Ally. Ally is fading away since she met herself on a previous trip back through time. Now it is truly a race against time to save her. But where is the ruthless Phillip Smale? Will Phillip complicate the important task at hand? Ages 8-13
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730444295
Entertaining reading for young cricketers - when fading light forces them indoors. toby Jones is not your average cricket fan. It isn't his passion for the game that makes him unusual - it's his ability to travel through time, back to the great matches of the past. toby is playing for Australia in a junior Ashes match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. It's the most important game of his life so far. But things take a dramatic turn when one of a band of sinister soul-snatchers - known as Grubbers - makes a ghostly appearance in the outfield and takes over the body of one of the England players. to make matters worse, toby discovers that his friend Georgie has gone missing. toby must return to the timeless Cricket Match and confront the powerful and evil Father time. Only by doing so can he save all the former and future test cricketers doomed to be trapped in the past forever... and the game of cricket itself. A thrilling conclusion to the bestselling toby Jones series. Ages 8-13
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730444899
toby Jones returns in another exciting story of time travel and cricket. toby Jones is not your average cricket fan. It's not his passion for the game that makes him unusual - it's his ability to travel through time, back to the great matches of the past. When his friend and fellow time traveller Jim Oldfield is left behind - last seen watching Bradman play at Leeds in 1930 - toby knows he's the only one who can find Jim. Meanwhile, Phillip Smale, ruthless team manager of the rival Scorpions, is working on a secretive scheme to lure rich cricket-lovers to his timeless travel tours... but there is no guarantee of a return ticket. Can toby save Jim and also thwart Smale's perilous plan? Or will the dangers of time travelling lead to disaster? Ages 8-13 years
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730491331
If you could travel back in time and see people and places from the past, would you go? toby Jones lives and breathes cricket. He plays in a local cricket competition, follows the professional players and knows all the stats. But toby has a secret 埨e can travel back through time to watch famous cricket matches and players. And he can take his friends with him. But itᱠnot all good news ... there are dangers. toby has seen the strange, hooded figure lurking in the background. What, or who, is this creepy character after? And how desperate is he to get what he wants? If you love fantasy or sport, you love reading the toby Jones books. With cricketing tips by Australian fast bowling legend, Brett Lee. Ages 8-13
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730443655
Third in the exciting adventure series set in an all-action Rugby League world. Sam and Vinny start the new term at St Helens, a private school with a proud sporting tradition but all is not smooth sailing. For a start, there's considerable rivalry between the two football codes - and soccer is gaining the upper hand at the expense of league. While the headmaster is welcoming, not all the staff are so encouraging, and one at least has something to hide - he's running a highly profitable betting scam, which Sam accidentally discovers when he takes an illicit look at the teacher's computer. Meanwhile, Sam and Vinny take on the challenge of a huge scavenger hunt at St Helen's. At stake is the future of league at the school, and to complicate things further, there's a growing attraction between Sam and tamara, a talented soccer player with a father who will stop at nothing to see soccer the dominant code at the school. And if all this isn't enough to keep a boy occupied, Sam has been selected for the tri-Nations Under 15 team - will he and his team be able to triumph over New Zealand and England? Ages: 10 to 13
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 073044404X
Sam's favourite rugby league team isn't making the grade, and he means to figure out why Sam Davies discovers that the house next door to his aunt's is being used to store action figures from all his favourite premier rugby league teams. And it looks like Sam's enemy, Vipers player Vinny taranto, might be involved. Desperate to rescue the struggling premier league club he has bought, Vinny's father is using microchips inserted in the action figures to control the players themselves, via the logos on their new jumpers. After Sam experiences a series of uncharacteristic blunders while training, discovery of a Sam-like figure prompts him and his friends to take a closer look at Mr taranto's operation. In an explosive showdown, Sam rescues Vinny from the booby-trapped house and discovers that Vinny is Mr taranto's stepson, not his son. And that's not the only surprise in store for Vinny ... Ages 10 - 14
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730443523
The fourth and fifth Toby Jones adventures in convenient omnibus edition. Stumped for something exciting to read? With must-have cricket info PLUS two edge-of-your seat adventures starring talented, time-travelling cricketer toby Jones, Howzat! is perfect for young cricket fans. toby Jones is no ordinary schoolboy. As well as being an awesome cricketer, he's a time traveller who gets to watch the most exciting games in the history of cricket. Ever. But sometimes this leads to trouble. All toby really wants is to play for Australia in the junior Ashes match. But he has to find a cure for his friend Ali, who is still feeling the ill-effects of breaking the time travel code. His time-travelling foe is out to get him, and there's unfinished business with an ancient and deadly Cricket Lord ... Featuring fascinating twenty/20 cricket facts and a ton of tips from famous fast bowler Brett Lee, Howzat! wraps up the toby Jones series in thrilling style. Howzat! includes: toby Jones and the timeless Cricket Match toby Jones and the Clash with Father time
Author : Michael Panckridge
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0730444384
Michael Panckridge, author of the toby Jones cricketing series, joins forces with Australian Rugby League legend Laurie Daly to bring us an exciting new sporting series - League of Legends. Sam Davies loves rugby league more than anything - and now he's been chosen to train in the Country squad! He loves league so much that he even sneaks out to watch the Salamanders, his most despised team, play - any football is better than no football. Sneaking out leads to serious complications when Sam witnesses something on the way home from the match that is somehow tied up with the Salamanders football team and the missing Fogherty Shield. Something really weird is going on, and with the help of his friends, Sam is determined to find out just what it si. But in the process it looks like might end up discovering more than he's bargained for ... Ages: 10-13 years
