Tommy Bell Bushranger Boy: The Horse Thief

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Included on the South Australian Premiers Reading Challenge list.An exciting new Australian adventure series full of danger, daring and wild colonial boys!

Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a wonderful new series featuring Tommys time travelling escapades that take him face-to-face with some of Australias most notorious bushrangers.

The hero of the series, Tommy Bell, lives in regional NSW in contemporary times but is able to travel back in time to the gold rush days by wearing an old bushrangers hat that he discovered on his grandfathers farm.

Tommy and his friends find themselves up close and personal with one of Australias well known outlaws. With each adventure there is plenty of danger and excitement: armed hold-ups, sieges, frauds, shoot-outs, police chases, jail-time and much more.

Each book cleverly incorporates a parallel story from Tommys twenty-first century life that tests his friendships and develops his character.

Book 2 The Horse Thief
Tommy Bell is happy when the popular new kid at school wants him to join his gang. His new friend is trouble but hes not half as much trouble as the bushranger that Tommy meets when his magic hat takes him back to the gold rush days. Tommy finds himself in the middle of a horse robbery, a police chase and a prison escape!

Author Bio

Author and librarianJane Smithhas a passion for Australian history and bushrangers in particular. With thirteen books on the subject published since 2014, and with titles receiving award nominations in the ABIA and CBCA awards and glowing reviews nationally it appears that Janes fascination with Australian history is shared by children, parents and teachers alike! In 2015 Captain Thunderbolt from her much loved Australian Bushranger series was shortlisted in the 2015 ABIA Awards. Shoot-out from the Rock the first in her new series, Tommy Bell Bushranger Boy, followed suit as a 2017 CBCA Book of the Year notable. The books teach younger readers about the colourful lives of our bushranging legends and the times they lived in. Her meticulous research offers an insight that goes beyond the surface into the personalities of her characters and debunks a few well-known myths and facts along the way. Janes clever and entertaining series has been written with not only a flare for fun and reader engagement but also with the Australian National Curriculum in mind. The seventh book in the Tommy Bell series wasreleased in February 2019. Pat Kan is a talented and versatile artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He has illustrated several childrens books including The Australian Bushranger series and the Tommy Bell Bushranger series as well picture books: Theres a Koa