ROBERT RAYNER is a former elementary school principal in St. George, New Brunswick. He is the author of a set of soccer Sports Stories about a gang of soccer-mad kids from fictional Brunswick Valley. Of these sports novels, "Walker's Runners" was nominated for the Ann Connor Brimer Award, "Just for Kicks" and "Falling Star" were both Hackmatack Award nominees, and "Suspended" and "Little's Losers" were Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice selections.