Rugby Flyer: Haunting history, thrilling tries

by Gerard Siggins

Overview

Eoin has been chosen for the Junior development squad so over the summer he gets to go to Dublin for a rugby summer school. Arising out of that, he and his new friends are taken on a trip to Twickenham, London, to play & watch rugby. While there, he meets a ghost: Prince Obolensky, a Russian who played rugby for England, scored a world famous try against New Zealand in Twickenham and later joined the RAF and died in WW2.

The fourth book in the Rugby Spirit series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847178190
Publisher:	Irish American Book Company
Publication date:	04/15/2016
Series:	Rugby Spirit , #4
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Gerard Siggins was born in Dublin in 1962. Initially a sports journalist, he worked for many years in the Sunday Tribune, where he became assistant editor. He has written several books about cricket and rugby. His Rugby Spirit series has sold over 50,000 copies and is hugely popular with sports-loving children around the world. Gerard regularly visits schools to talk about his books.

Editorial Reviews

09/01/2016
Gr 5–8—In this addition to a UK series for middle schoolers, Irish schoolboy Eoin Madden is selected to attend a prestigious rugby summer camp run by the Leinster professional team. This presents a problem for Eoin, as he is from Munster and Leinster is Munster's most hated rival. He decides to accept Leinster's offer, however, and leads his team to victory, overcoming various difficulties in the process, including having to skip out at the final game's half-time to return half of a priceless Fabergé Easter egg to the ghost of a Russian prince who died in World War I. The narrative is complicated, confusing, and more than a bit muddled. Rugby-mad youngsters could conceivably be carried along by the game action, but for the uninitiated on this side of the Atlantic, talk of scrum-halves, rucks, and line-outs will likely prove as much of an obstacle as the novel's fantastical premise. VERDICT An Irish stew likely to be unpalatable to American tastes.—Richard Luzer, formerly at Fair Haven Union High School, VT

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