MICHAEL PANCKRIDGE

Author

Michael Panckridge is a senior teacher at Geelong College and author of the renowned THE LEGENDS series, which is the culmination of many years of dedicated sports mania combined with an enthusiastic exploration of what boys and girls really want to read.

As a sport enthusiast, Michael has played cricket, football, soccer, tennis hockey and golf. He enjoys collecting sporty things and has an impressive collection of football cards and cricket books. Apart from Sport, Michael loves reading and doing jigsaws, inventing games and going to films.

The theme for Michael's books has always been sport. THE LEGENDS series is big on sport. It is racy, very readable and written in a modern, topical style.

The premise of each book in the series is based around students who are competing to be the all round Legend of each sport at school. There are a mix of hero's and villain's and plenty of strong and interesting characters. At the end of each book there are maps and quizzes and lots of factual statistics for each sport.

CHASING THE BREAK

Mitchell Grady is the new boy at Sandhurst School. Every year, the students compete to be the school's Sporting Legend - the best out of eight sports. the first round is in the surf at the school camp. Thee first round is in the surf at the school camp. Mitchell is good, but is he good enough?

Travis Fisk, the school bully, doesn't think so. Who will be the The
Legend of the surf?

Find out when they go chasing the break

CLEARING THE PACK

Football is the next sport in the Legends Series and Travis Fisk is flying high. He knows he's got to win this one to stay in the race.
But this time Mitchell Grade and Travis Fisk are on the same side.

So who will be Fisk's target?

The LEGENDS SERIES published by Black Dog Books includes:

CHASING THE BREAK, AGAINST THE SPIN, DOWN THE LINE, CLEARING THE PACK,
OVER THE WALL, ON THE BUZZER, RAISING THE BAR & THE FINAL LAP.