Gillian Cross is one of the best children's novelists today and her stories of the Demon Headmaster are both fun and quite frightening.

Daily Telegraph

Highly recommended.

Woman and Home

This is a fast-moving story for younger children, but thought-provoking for older ones.

Junior Education

There's a new computer game at school and the chance to enter the Junior Computer Brain of the Year competition is sending ripples of excitement through the pupils. Dinah is a whizz at the game and soon finds herself in the competition final. But it takes a while to realize that it's all just part of the Demon Headmaster's latest plan . . . Dinah is being used to access the computer of the Prime Minster. Great fun and just a little bit frightening, Gillian Cross's Demon Headmaster books still hold readers under their hypnotic spell. Fast-paced and full of adventure, they're impossible to resist!
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The Junior Computer Brain of the Year competition is sending ripples of excitement through the school and when Dinah makes it to the final, she's over the moon. But too late she realizes that she's being used to access the private computer of the Prime Minister . . . the daring new target of the Demon Headmaster!
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`Gillian Cross is one of the best children's novelists today and her stories of the Demon Headmaster are both fun and quite frightening.' Daily Telegraph `Highly recommended.' Woman and Home `This is a fast-moving story for younger children, but thought-provoking for older ones.' Junior Education
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You'll never believe who the Demon Headmaster's after this time . . .
Accessible page turner from a well-respected and award-winning author. Great fun and just a little bit frightening. Fantastic hook that children will find impossible to resist. Nostalgia appeal for parents.
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Gillian Cross has been writing children's books for over thirty years. Before that, she took English degrees at Oxford and Sussex Universities, and she has had various jobs including working in a village bakery and being an assistant to a Member of Parliament. She is married with four children and lives in Dorset. Her hobbies include orienteering and playing the piano. She won the Carnegie Medal for Wolf and the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Great Elephant Chase.
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Accessible page turner from a well-respected and award-winning author. Great fun and just a little bit frightening. Fantastic hook that children will find impossible to resist. Nostalgia appeal for parents.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192759979
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
132 gr
Høyde
201 mm
Bredde
136 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
JC, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176

Forfatter

Biographical note

Gillian Cross has been writing children's books for over thirty years. Before that, she took English degrees at Oxford and Sussex Universities, and she has had various jobs including working in a village bakery and being an assistant to a Member of Parliament. She is married with four children and lives in Dorset. Her hobbies include orienteering and playing the piano. She won the Carnegie Medal for Wolf and the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children's Novel Award for The Great Elephant Chase.