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    Hit the Road (The Selwood Boys, #3)
    Hit the Road (The Selwood Boys, #3)
    Hit the Road (The Selwood Boys, #3)
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    Hit the Road (The Selwood Boys, #3)

    By Tony Wilson, Adam Selwood, Troy Selwood and

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    Four future AFL stars under one roof!?

    Go back to where it all began with The Selwood Boys ...


    In the Selwood house, there's madness and mayhem every day -- and footy, of course!

    Meet the Selwood boys ... There's the twins, Troy and Adam, pulling pranks and making mischief, then Joel with his sneaky, cheeky antics, and finally little Scott, who just does his best (or make that his worst!) to keep up.

    The Selwoods are off on holiday! And Joel's brothers are on a mission to find his sporting weakness. Will they discover his Kryptonite or is Joel the ultimate all-rounder?

    PRAISE FOR THE SELWOOD BOYS: BATTLE ROYALE

    'the perfect suggestion for readers of Specky Magee ... a fantastic tale for all young readers, aged seven and up, with a love for the game.' Books+Publishing, Four stars

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateMar 1, 2017
    ISBN9781460707135
    Hit the Road (The Selwood Boys, #3)
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    Tony Wilson

    Tony Wilson is a much-loved Australian children's book author and one-time Hawthorn draftee. His books include Harry Highpants, The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas, Stuff Happens: Jack, Emo the Emu and The Cow Tripped Over the Moon, which was an Honour Book in the 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. Tony lives in Melbourne.  

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      Hit the Road (The Selwood Boys, #3) - Tony Wilson

      ALSO BY TONY WILSON

      OUT NOW!

      Book 1 – Battle Royale

      Book 2 – The Miracle Goal

      Book 3 – Hit the Road

      OUT SOON!

      Book 4 – Maintain the Mischief

      DEDICATION

      For Mum and Dad

      — Troy, Adam, Joel and Scott

      To Mum and Dad, for everything

      — Tony Wilson

      CONTENTS

      The Selwood Boys books

      Dedication

      One

      Two

      Three

      Four

      Five

      Six

      Seven

      Eight

      Nine

      Ten

      Eleven

      Twelve

      Thirteen

      Fourteen

      Fifteen

      Excerpt from The Selwood Boys Maintain the Mischief

      One

      About the Selwoods

      About the Author

      Copyright

      ONE

      DECEMBER 1997

      Joel hung his body out of the rear window of the Falcon six-seater, a footy raised above his head.

      ‘Count it down!’ he shouted, with enough volume to notify all of the street of their departure.

      ‘Ten, nine, eight, seven, six . . .’

      The whole car joined in, including Mum and Dad. The family had been counting down the months and then weeks and then days to their big Queensland adventure. Finally, there were just seconds to go.

      ‘Three, two, one . . .!’

      The boys erupted in a cheer, and Dad leaned on the horn.

      ‘Bryce! It’s five in the morning!’ Mum said. ‘You’ll wake up half of Bendigo.’

      ‘Sorry,’ Dad replied. ‘I thought we needed a siren.’

      ‘We did, Mum, we did!’ Joel babbled, as his brothers hauled him back inside the car.

      ‘Woohoo!’ Scott whooped.

      ‘At last!’ shouted one of the twins.

      They were away.

      Three suitcases, four boogie boards, two footies, a frisbee, six beach towels, a beach umbrella, two Game Boys and six Selwoods.

      At the one-minute-and-twenty-second mark, the boys had their first fight.

      ‘Muuuuuum,’ whined Joel. ‘Why do Adam and Troy get the Game Boys? This one is Tommy O’s. He’s my friend.’

      ‘He’s my friend,’ said Scott, who was sitting on the front bench seat between Mum and Dad. ‘He’s more my age than Joel’s. I want the Game Boy.’

      ‘He kicks the footy more with me,’ said Joel, and he snatched Tommy O’s Game Boy from Troy.

      ‘Arrrgh!’ Troy shouted as he lost both the Game Boy and the game of Donkey Kong. He grabbed Joel by the shirt and threw him across Adam’s lap. That spoiled Adam’s game of Pokémon.

      ‘Arrrgh!’ Adam grabbed Troy’s hair.

      ‘I want it,’ Scott said, clawing his way into the back.

      ‘No Game Boys!’ Dad commanded from the front seat. ‘If you can’t share, then nobody gets them.’

      Mum took the Game Boys and shut them away in the glove box. ‘Only two days of driving to go, boys,’ she said. ‘Can’t we think of a nice family game?’

      ‘What about Corners?’ Adam suggested.

      ‘Okay, how do we play that?’ Mum asked.

      The rules were that Scott had to name his favourite twin. Then, the twin who wasn’t named would use the momentum of each corner to push across and crush the rest of the back seat. Because it was Joel in the middle getting crushed and not him, Scott was bouncing with excitement. ‘How fun is this!’ he giggled.

      ‘Not that fun,’ Joel wheezed. ‘Muuum! I can’t breathe!’

      ‘Boys!’ Dad scolded. ‘We’ve got seventeen hundred kilometres to go!’

      ‘Why don’t we play I Spy?’ Mum suggested.

      ‘How old do you think we are — three?’ Adam laughed.

      ‘Yeah, put on a Wiggles tape, Mum!’ teased Troy.

      ‘We could play Banana Car?’ said Joel.

      Banana Car was a Selwood family favourite. The idea was that everyone kept a lookout for yellow vehicles. Yellow cars, yellow trucks, yellow vans, yellow motorbikes — these were all Banana Car gold. The first to yell ‘banana car’ when a yellow vehicle appeared, scored ten points. The winner was whoever got to a hundred and fifty points first.

      ‘Banana car!’ Dad yelled, as they turned onto the Midland Highway.

      They all laughed at Dad’s rookie mistake. ‘It’s a taxi, Dad!’ explained Joel. ‘Don’t you know taxis are minus fifty?’

      Taxis were Banana Car poison. If you saw a taxi, you had to hold your tongue.

      ‘Banana Car — that old one!’ yelled Scott.

      ‘Banana Car — Ford station wagon!’ shouted Joel.

      ‘Banana Car — that harvester over there!’ yelled Adam.

      ‘A harvester? That’s not a vehicle, it’s farm equipment. It’s not even on the road!’ said Dad.

      ‘It’s a vehicle!’ Adam said. Troy backed him up. Then Troy got angry when Adam declared that the kombi he’d spotted was mustard, not yellow. The twins wrestled. Joel was caught in the middle so he elbowed them both.

      ‘Pull over,’ Mum said to Dad.

      Mum and Scott moved into the back and Adam and Joel into the front. Troy, who was leading Banana Car, said this was unfair as Adam and Joel could now spot yellow cars without seats in the way.

      Sure enough, Joel picked off two yellow Commodores and a Ducati motorcycle to join Troy in the lead.

      ‘Banana Car!’ Troy yelled, as a yellow speck appeared on the horizon.

      The speck grew larger and larger and became

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