Demanding the Ashes: introducing a new children's novel.

Longtime friend of the Egobooers and award-winning former member of the KSP Speculative Fiction Group, Sonia Helbig has published Demanding the Ashes, the first novel in her kid's series Street Cricket Wars, under the pen-name Ricky Striker.

Ricky Striker’s Street Cricket Wars #1 Demanding The Ashes

Cricket mad Fred Black is just about to start high school but he has a huge problem on his hands. Evans - Selwood’s Primary School’s biggest bully who’s picked on Fred all primary school - will be going to the same High School next year. Fred decides he must stop the bullying once and for all. Can and his best mate, Todd, come up with a crazy plan to force Evans to stop the name calling once and for all? 

Find out in Ricky Striker’s Street Cricket Wars #1 Demanding The Ashes

Themes: Friendship, Bullying, Sports, Cricket

*Warning 1* Episode #1 ends on a cliff hanger just like most TV serial episodes. If you’d rather avoid the cliff hangers and get the whole series at once then you may like to check out the complete serial early bird edition which is available for readers who can’t bear cliff hanger endings or waiting for the monthly installments. It’s cheaper this way too!

*Warning 2* - Contains classic Ricky Striker “Weird Humor” moments based on The Ashes

Street Cricket Wars: The Complete Serial #1-5 

Ricky Striker’s Street Cricket Wars The Complete Serial #1-5 Blurb

Cricket mad Fred Black is about to start high school but he has a huge problem on his hands. Evans - Selwood’s biggest bully who’s picked on Fred all primary school - will be going to the same high school next year. Fred and his best mate, Todd, come up with a crazy plan to stop the bullying for good. After all, cricket can solve anything. Can’t it? But life is never that simple for Fred. There’s a reason his dad calls him Trouble. And Trouble is definitely about to break loose. Worse trouble than being called names by the school bully. So much trouble it erupts into a street cricket war.

Will Fred be able to put all the trouble right, keep his Mum and Dad happy, as well as beat Evans and win the right to his real name back - or will he fail? Find out in Ricky Striker’s Street Cricket Wars The Complete Serial Episodes #1-5.

Themes: Friendship, Bullying, Sports, Cricket

*Warning* - Contains classic Ricky Striker “Weird Humor” moments based on The Ashes

This early bird compilation edition is available for readers who can’t bear cliff hanger endings or waiting for the monthly installments. It’s cheaper this way too!

Demanding the Ashes is available at Amazon here.

*The series is also available in iTunes, Nook, Kobo, Page Foundry, Scribd and Tolino.

Congratulations, Sonia (Ricky), and wishing you the very best with your wonderful new kid's book series!