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It's amazing! The Hyperbrain is a super intelligent computer that works by accessing the human brain. In the wrong hands, though, it could spell disaster. The new Controller at the Artificial Intelligence Unit seems horribly familiar but Dinah and her friends know that the Demon Headmaster hasbeen defeated. Hasn't he?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!

Dinah and her brothers are pretty sure they're rid of the Demon Headmaster once and for all. When people start dismantling the research centre Dinah contacts Professor Claudia Rowe, who's an expert on artificial intelligence. With Dinah's help she saves some of the precious materials and theybecome friends. Then weird things start to happen. Libraries start closing and their books are taken away. Telephones stop working, and there is no internet access. People start talking like robots-even Claudia Rowe-and more and more of them seem to be wearing strange badges. It all adds up to onething: the Demon Headmaster must be back. Dinah's search leads her to the university where she finds him developing a Hyperbrain-a computer with superhuman intelligence and deadly potential. Suddenly she's trapped. Is there any way to foil his plan?Gillian Cross has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, and the Smarties Prize, and is a highly-acclaimed author. Sales of Gillian's books exceed one million copies.

This is the latest Gillian Cross's `Demon Headmaster' series. The Demon Headmaster is her most popular work for children, and The Prime Minister's Brain, The Revenge of the Demon Headmaster, and The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again continue the series. The stories are about the adventures of agroup of children who find themselves up against threats of the Demon Headmaster.In The Demon Headmaster Takes Over, Dinah and the rest of the group find that the Demon Headmaster has not been finished off, after all. Instead he was cloned by his own machine, and now he is trying to find out who he really is, and what happened to him. And when he realises that Dinah wasresponsible in some way, he is determined to track her down.

The fifth Demon Headmaster book.What's wrong with all the telephones? Why is there no news on the television? And why aren't people allowed to ask questions? Dinah and her friends know that something terrible is happening. But when they start to investigate, they realize Dinah is being tracked down. It looks as though the DemonHeadmaster is behind it all, but the Headmaster has vanished for ever . . . hasn't he?* The best-selling series which inspired the top-rating television series* Author with sales of over a million books* Prize-winning author - winner of Smarties Prize, Whitbread Award and Carnegie Medal* Now reissued for the first time as a matching set, with eyecatching fluorescent covers and a sturdy sewn binding.* Gillian Cross lives in Warwickshire.