Books with title Tommy Bell Bushranger Boy: The Horse Thief

Tommy Bell, Bushranger Boy is a series featuring Tommy’s time travellingescapades that take him face-to-face with some of Australia’s most notoriousbushrangers.The hero of the series, Tommy Bell, lives in regional NSW in contemporarytimes but is able to travel back in time to the gold rush days by wearing an oldbushranger’s hat that he discovered on his grandfather’s farm.Each book brings Tommy and his friends up close and personal with one ofAustralia’s well known outlaws. With each adventure there is plenty of dangerand excitement: armed hold-ups, sieges, frauds, shoot-outs, police chases, jailtimeand much more.Each book cleverly incorporates a parallel story from Tommy’s twenty-firstcentury life that tests his friendships and develops his character.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 buthe’s not half as much trouble as the bushranger that Tommy meets when his magic hat takes him back to the goldrush days. Tommy finds himself in the middle of a horse robbery, a police chase and a prison escape!

School camp can be fun, but not when it’s run by a nasty bully who pickson Tommy Bell and his friends. But when Tommy’s magic cabbage-treehat takes him back in time to meet up with Ben Hall and his gang,Tommy discovers that even in the gold rush days there were bullies …and they were on both sides of the law!They also really knew how to make trouble …

When Tommy goes on a trip to an Outback farm with his friend Martin,he thinks that his biggest problem will be Francis, his former friend whohas gate-crashed the holiday. He doesn’t expect to run into his old enemy,Frank Gardiner. Frank is on the run from the law and will do anythingto keep Tommy from revealing his true identity. And Tommy is about tolearn why the bushranger is so desperate to stay out of jail!