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Facing the Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Category: Children's
Club Purple is the place to be. What makes it so fantastic is the mysterious DJ Pardoman, who keeps his face hidden behind an ever-changing electronic mask. When a competition is announced to unmask him, everyone wants to know who's behind it. To win, entrants have to find out as much as possible about ...Show more
Film Crew (RA8 IA8-12) by Gillian Cross
Category: Children's
It's Art Camp Week and Lara's class is off for an adventure in a big house in the middle of the woods. Mr Mac is keen to catch every moment on film - even the coach turning up and the teacher racing to catch it! Everyone gets stuck in to a big art project but Lara's friend Ted lets her into a secret pro ...Show more
Five Ways to Make a Friend by Gillian Cross
Category: Children's Classic Fiction
A touching tale of friendship, understanding and finding the confidence to be yourself, from one of the UK's most beloved authors.It's Ella's first day at her new school and that can only mean one thing: making new friends. But the challenge is even tougher than Ella thought, as the girls in her class j ...Show more
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Two of the Greatest Stories Ever Told by Gillian Cross
Category: Children's
Gillian Cross's brilliant retellings and Neil Packer's clever illustrations bring to life Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, two of the greatest stories ever told. When first published Walker’s versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey attracted attention both for the quality of the writing and for their amazingly ...Show more
Jason Banks and the Pumpkin of Doom by Gillian Cross
Category: Junior Fiction
Jason Banks is a bully. No one likes him and even the teachers are scared of him! It's time that someone taught Jason a lesson and he might just have met his match in the strange pumpkin that keeps appearing on his doorstep. Will Jason ever learn the error of his ways? And can he crack the case of the d ...Show more
Mozart's Banana by Gillian Cross
Category: Middle Readers
A charming village story about a little girl, a dare gone wrong and one crazy animal! When Alice Brett moves from the city to a little village school, she's never seen a real live horse before. And famous village resident Mozart's Banana is not just any old horse - he's crazy! The children are banned f ...Show more
NIGHTMARE GAME by CROSS GILLIAN
Category: Fiction
Hope has gone. Warren saw her being taken from her prison under their father's house but was too scared to intervene. Now he wishes he'd been brave enough to stop Rob, Emma and Tom kidnapping her. His father is furious, but it's the behaviour of Warren's normally-cowed mother that's mostfrightening. For ...Show more
Nightmare Game (The Lost - Book 3) by Gillian Cross
Category: Fiction | Series: Lost S.
Hope has gone. Warren saw her being taken from her prison under their father's house but was too scared to intervene. Now he wishes he'd been brave enough to stop Rob, Emma and Tom kidnapping her. His father is furious, but it's the behaviour of Warren's normally-cowed mother that's most frightening. ...Show more
Revenge of the Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Category: Children's
Hunky Parker is the new craze. His drooling, dribbling pig face is everywhere: on T-shirts and badges, and there are even horrible pig-trotter trainers and pig-swill yogurts in the shops. But it's when the Hunky TV shows air nationally that the trouble really begins. Suddenly, people are going crazy for ...Show more