Author(s): Ruth Starke

8-12 Fiction

The plucky nips XI cricket team goes interstate in this sparkling sequel to the best-selling Nips XI, about a group of Aussie-Asian kids, who form a cricket team in an attempt to integrate into Australian culture by playing the most non-Asian sport around. The Nips XI have been invited to compete in a tournament in Melbourne for young ethnic cricketers, the Harmony Cup. Lan, a Vietnamese Australian, and his mates (and introducing the enigmatic Sam), know no boundaries when it comes to footing it with the teams from central Australia (Aborigines) and the Melanesian islands and even compare captaincy ideas with Ricky Ponting on that most holy ground, the MCG.