Toby Jones and the Secret of the Missing Scorecard
Author: Michael Panckridge
Author: Brett Lee
Book 2 in the Toby Jones series
Pages: 208
Published: 2004
Age: 8+
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 he can travel back through time to watch famous cricket matches and players. And he can take his friends with him. But it’s not 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’ll love reading the Toby Jones books. With cricketing tips by Australian fast bowling legend, Brett Lee.
About the Toby Jones Series
Books in series order
- 1.Toby Jones and the Magic Cricket Almanack(2003)
- 2.Toby Jones and the Secret of the Missing Scorecard(2004)
- 3.Toby Jones and the Mystery of the Time-Travel Tour(2005)
- 4.Toby Jones and the Timeless Cricket Match(2006)
- 5.Toby Jones and the Clash with Father Time(2008)
Reading age: 7+ years
The first in a series of time-slip books that take the reader back to famous cricket matches of the past. Toby Jones and his classmates go to the MCG archives on a school excursion and there they meet the old and wise caretaker at the library, Jim Oldfield. Jim is amazed when he realises that Toby has the gift – Toby can see numbers and words whirl on the pages of old Wisdens, which means that he has the potential to travel back in time to cricket matches.
This unique gift means that Toby and his cricket-team friends – 12-year-old boys and girls who love the game on and off the field – have a time portal that opens them to adventure centred on their beloved game of cricket.
This series is written in conjunction with cricket legend, Brett Lee.