Books with author Gillian Cross

Everyone is talking about the latest TV show, Hunky Parker. It's the latest craze and soon everyone in school is completely hooked on it. Ingrid tries to convince her friends to watch, but they're just not interested. At last she manages to persuade them and once they start watching it,something very weird happens . . . and it could involve the Demon Headmaster!Great fun and just a little bit frightening, Gillian Cross's beloved characters still holds readers under his hypnotic spell. Exciting and page-turning adventures. The Demon Headmaster series is impossible to resist.

Eddie Beale looks after his friends, people say, as long as they entertain him. And when he takes notice of Ashley, she is happy to put on a show and be part of the excitement that surrounds him and his gang - it is a relief from the unrelenting drudgery of her life. Then she realizes thatsomeone else is also watching her. Someone is stalking her and leaving messages that get uglier and uglier. Can Eddie help her? And if he does, what price will she have to pay? Interest age: 12+.

Club Purple is the place to be! The mysterious DJ Pardoman is so cool, with his ever-changing electronic mask. So when a competition is announced to unmask the DJ, everyone wants to win and find out who he is. When Dinah makes a shocking discovery she decides to investigate further, but has she fallen into a trap? Little does Dinah realize that the Demon Headmaster is about to use her in his most threatening plan yet! 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!

Roscoe's Leap - that's the name of the strange old house where Stephen and Hannah had grown up. For Hannah it was a place where the heating was always breaking down and she was the one who had to fix it. But for Stephen it was a place of secrets, a place where something had once happened tohim, something dark and terrifying which he couldn't quite remember, yet couldn't quite forget.When history student Nick Honeyball arrives, Stephen's emotions are thrown into turmoil. Here's a man whose obsession with revealing the patterns of the past begins to unlock the terror that Stephen has kept inside him for so long.

Colin Jackus doesn't want to be in the school play and is angry because he's been forced into it. But gradually he starts to realize that it's not just a play - the sinster story they are acting has its roots deep in cruel reality and despair.Strange things are happening among the cast of the play and misery is seeping through them. So when the leading actor starts to take on the evil personality of the character he's supposed to be playing, Jackus decides to delve deeper and try and stop the disaster that threatens.

Jack wakes up on his birthday to find an extra special present - everything is covered in fluffy, white snow! He and two friends Sam and Ryan decide to build the biggest, scariest snowman in the world. But when they all receive a mysterious text in the middle of the night, the last thing they expect is to be chased up a tree by the monster snowman! But is the snowman as scary as he seems? A delightfully crafted story with beautiful illustrations from award-winning Ross Collins. With a reading age of 8, it's also suitable for relucatant, struggling and dyslexic readers.