Think your school sucks? Try Groosham Grange! When David is expelled from school and sent there by his parents, he discovers that his new boarding school is a very weird place. New pupils have to sign their names in blood, the French teacher disappears every full moon, and the assistant headmaster keeps something very chilling in his room! What are the black rings everyone wears? Where do the other pupils slink away to at night? Most crucially of all, how can David get away – alive? Shiver at chills and chuckles galore in this darkly funny tale of a school with a freaky secret!

“One of the funniest books of the year.” Young Telegraph

“Hilarious… speeds along at full tilt from page to page.” Books for Keeps

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781406361681

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

Date published

August 6th, 2015

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.8; Middle years; 4.0 points

Other details

272 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been – apart from the moon!

His Alex Rider series is one of the most popular children’s book series ever, and the first Alex Rider book, Stormbreaker, became a major Hollywood film. In 2003, Anthony won the Red House Children’s Book Award (voted for by children) for Skeleton Key.

He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Diamond Brothers detective stories, as well as the bestselling The Power of Five books, which were inspired by a simple thought. “Isn’t it more exciting to imagine these great battles with all their magic and mystery happening in the very high street where you live, just out of the corner of your eye?”

Anthony lives in central London with his wife Jill Green, a TV producer, and their sons Nicholas and Cassian. His whole family gets involved in his writing. Jill has produced several of Anthony’s scripts, including the drama serial Foyle’s War, which won the Lew Grade Audience Award in 2003. His son Cassian is already a seasoned actor, having appeared in three of his shows, and Nicholas, his oldest son, has helped Anthony to research the Alex Rider books by trying his hand at everything from scuba-diving to snowboarding and surfing!

In 2013, Anthony was awarded an OBE for services to literature..