: Meet Little Davey Warner. He lives in Sandhill Flats with his mum and dad and his brother Steve and his stinky dog Max. Davey and his schoolmates even Max are MAD for cricket. All they want to do is play but there's always something getting in their way.
In this first book in the series, Davey and his friends have a big game coming up against Shimmer Bay, their arch rivals in the local comp. They need to practise and spend all their free time at school in the morning and at lunchtime making sure they'll be ready. But disaster strikes. Davey and his friends find out their new teacher is Mr Mudge, a strict grump who Hates cricket even more than he hates year 6 boys and thanks to bully Mo Clouter, they find themselves on detention. Which means no cricket. The boys are desperate.
: Ivan is an easy-going gorilla who has spent his life performing for the crowds at the Exit 8 shopping mall. He rarely misses life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly thinks about it at all. But everything changes when a baby elephant called Ruby arrives and Ivan realizes he must find a new life for them both