Replay & Barnaby Cole: Detective!
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‘That’s you Barnaby!’ everyone shouted. Barnaby groaned. He knew it, he just knew it! One ball left from the opposite side’s looney bowler, Ned Leeds, and four runs needed to win. Barnaby plodded wearily towards the wicket. He knew exactly what was about to happen. He’d never hit a four in his life and he’d never even seen a ball bowled by Ned. Everyone was going to blame him again.
‘Come on Barnaby,’ roared the sports teacher, Mr Croker. Barnaby took a glance at the row of bushes that was the school’s vegetable garden and meant four to the cricket players. Then he risked a glance forward at the bowler. Ned was stamping away from him, muttering to himself and squeezing the ball out of shape. Barnaby pressed his knees together to stop them from knocking, gritted his teeth and firmly closed his eyes. There came a mad pounding of feet, like buffalo stampeding, the whistle of the ball through the air like it had been shot from a cannon, and a crack as it snapped his offside stump in two. Everybody groaned.
‘Oh Barnaby!’ said Mr Croker crossly. Sadly Barnaby limped back to the bank. He hadn’t hurt his leg but he felt like limping just then. Now he was particularly unhappy, if only he had had his bat a little to the left. Barnaby sighed, comments were coming in from all sides and he banged the Walkman on the ground to switch it on and plugged himself in so he wouldn’t hear what everybody was saying. At least that was all right because it was his favourite record, just finishing now. Barnaby gave the Walkman a squeeze to hear it again. There was a brief flash of light and …
Ned was stamping away from him, muttering to himself and squeezing the ball out of shape. Barnaby pressed his knees together to stop them from knocking, gritted his teeth and firmly closed his eyes. There came a mad pounding of feet, like buffalo stampeding, the whistle of the ball through the air like it had been shot from a cannon but this time Barnaby knew what was going to happen and he edged his bat slightly to the left. There came a crack and the bat jerked in his hand. ‘Yes! Barnaby!’ roared Mr Croker, lunging forward and slapping him on the back so hard that he staggered half way down the pitch. Barnaby opened his eyes. ‘I knew you could do it,’ said Mr Croker. ‘A beautiful off drive, right into the vegetable garden.’
Barnaby gazed around at the cheering children and tried to smile confidently. It didn’t quite come off.
Description
Replay
Barnaby always gets pushed around by everybody: the other boys at school, his friends, the teachers and even his sister. Then Mr Orlando sells him a music player that lets him re-live the last few minutes again whenever he wants to and everything starts to change for Barnaby. He becomes the school’s best cricket player, he wins the chess tournament, he can even stand up to the school bully…he can even win over his older sister. But is everything right for Barnaby?
Barnaby Cole: Detective!
Barnaby Cole’s passion is detective stories and Barnaby wants to be a detective but the problem is he’s not very good at it and all the other children in school make fun of him. There’s more important things going on at school though because the children all want to earn some money to send Geoff away on a gymnastic course. Rallied by the incredible Jessica they all put on a fete that raises much more than they intended and they are left with the problem of what to do with the extra money. But someone is stealing lunches from the locker room and Barnaby bets everybody he will find the culprit. But he’s still not very good at it: he gets locked in his own locker, he has his own lunch stolen and finally covers the Headmistress with soot!
