Books in the The Adventures of Rhys series

At the end of a day already fraught with trouble nine years old Rhys is devastated by the news of his missing brother. Firstly he has school problems. With his best friend Giddy, he chases grasshoppers and gets his clothes very dirty. He experiments with kissing a girl, April who does not react like his brother's girlfriends. Together Rhys and Giddy decide to train a very reluctant greyhound for racing. Do they succeed? But worse was to come - an invitation to April's birthday party.

Rhys and Giddy have to raise money to afford going to London to watch Wales play Rugby at Twickenham. Will they do it? And how do they save April from having to move to Swansea?