LEAPER LANE
rugby league rookie

Stephen Measday & Paul Sironen

Eleven-year-old Jack Lane is a little kid with a lot on his mind – a new city, a new school, and a new football code.

Life isn’t easy when he moves from Melbourne to Sydney and has to give up Aussie Rules. But things soon get heaps better. Jack gets hooked on rugby league and joins his local club, the Wanderers. After a shaky start the team learns Jack can leap as high as any of them. And he has the best kicking boot in junior league. So it’s goodbye ‘Midget’ and hello ‘Leaper’.

But will injury sideline him? Will he make the cut for The Footy Show junior kicking competition? And will he ever get his mum and dad back together again?

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Stephen Measday is a bestselling children’s author (A Pig Called Francis Bacon and The News They Didn’t Use have both been listed as Notable Books by the Children’s Book Council) and award-winning scriptwriter (Blue Heelers, Hi 5). Rugby league legend Paul Sironen played for the (then) Balmain Tigers, NSW and Australia.

 

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Leaper Lane, April 2006
Children's Fiction
232 x 152mm, B format, paperback 206pp
9781920727260