Gillian Cross Books In Order

Demon Headmaster Books In Order

  1. The Demon Headmaster (1982)
  2. The Prime Minister’s Brain (1985)
  3. Hunky Parker Is Watching You (1994)
  4. The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again (1996)
  5. The Demon Headmaster Takes Over (1997)
  6. Facing the Demon Headmaster (2001)
  7. Total Control (2017)
  8. The Revenge of the Demon Headmster (2017)
  9. Beware of the Demon Headmaster (2002)
  10. Mortal Danger (2019)

Dark Ground Books In Order

  1. The Dark Ground (2004)
  2. The Black Room (2005)
  3. The Nightmare Game (2006)

Odyssey Books In Order

  1. The Odyssey (2012)
  2. The Iliad (2015)

Novels

  1. The Iron Way (1979)
  2. Revolt at Ratcliffe’s Rags (1980)
  3. A Whisper of Lace (1981)
  4. The Dark Behind the Curtain (1982)
  5. Born of the Sun (1983)
  6. On the Edge (1984)
  7. The Runaway (1986)
  8. Swimathon! (1986)
  9. Chartbreak (1986)
  10. Roscoe’s Leap (1987)
  11. A Map of Nowhere (1988)
  12. Rescuing Gloria (1989)
  13. Wolf (1990)
  14. Twin and Super-Twin (1990)
  15. The Monster from Underground (1990)
  16. The Mintyglo Kid (1991)
  17. Gobbo the Great (1991)
  18. Save Our School (1991)
  19. Rent-a-genius (1991)
  20. The Great Elephant Chase (1992)
  21. Beware Olga! (1993)
  22. The Tree House (1993)
  23. What Will Emily Do? (1994)
  24. New World (1994)
  25. The Crazy Shoe Shuffle (1995)
  26. Posh Watson (1995)
  27. Pictures in the Dark (1996)
  28. The Roman Beanfeast (1996)
  29. The Goose Girl (1998)
  30. Tightrope (1999)
  31. Down with the Dirty Danes! (2000)
  32. Calling a Dead Man (2001)
  33. Phoning a Dead Man (2002)
  34. Where I Belong (2010)
  35. After Tomorrow (2013)
  36. Shadow Cat (2015)
  37. Ollie Spark and the Accidental Adventure (2022)

Collections

  1. Spooky Stories (2008)

Picture Books

  1. Brother Aelred’s Feet (2007)

Chapter Books

  1. Monster Snowman (2012)
  2. The Cupcake Wedding (2013)
  3. The Mystery of the Man with the Black Beard (2014)
  4. Mozart’s Banana (2014)
  5. Amber’s Song (2016)
  6. Film Crew (2017)
  7. Jason Banks and the Pumpkin of Doom (2018)
  8. The Ghost Tower (2019)
  9. Five Ways to Make a Friend (2020)

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Gillian Cross Books Overview

The Demon Headmaster

Chivers Children’s Audio Books is proud to present you with our brand new collection of titles on Compact Disc! As always, these high quality books are recorded complete and unabridged. All of our titles will still be available on cassette, but now you have the opportunity to order selected Chivers Children’s Audio Books on Compact Disc!On the first day at her new school Dinah realizes that something is horribly wrong. The children are strangely neat and well behaved; they never run when they should walk and they never raise their voices. They even work during playtime. What makes them behave this way and why does Dinah find herself conforming? The answer is fear but what is the secret of the Headmaster’s control and why does he exert it? With the help of her foster brothers, Lloyd and Harvey, Dinah is determined to unravel the mystery of the sinister Headmaster.

The Prime Minister’s Brain

The return of the Demon Headmaster, who plans to hypnotize the Prime Minister and control the country.

The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again

Chivers Children’s Audio Books is proud to present you with our brand new collection of titles on Compact Disc! As always, these high quality books are recorded complete and unabridged. All of our titles will still be available on cassette, but now you have the opportunity to order selected Chivers Children’s Audio Books on Compact Disc!Dinah’s father is headhunted for a new job at the Biogenetic Research Center and who should be the director but the Demon Headmaster! This time his lust for power sees him meddling with evolution itself. The consequences of his evil schemes will be deadly if the SPLAT gang doesn’t act and fast.

The Demon Headmaster Takes Over

Dinah and her brothers have moved house as their dad’s got a new job at the Biogenetic Research Centre. It sounds great, but all three realize something very weird’s going on. People in the village talk like robots when the centre is mentioned. There’s a mysterious buzzing sound near the centre, and a creeper that can grow at an incredible speed. And why is the centre surrounded by such scary security guards? When the kids start probing, they soon run into trouble. Dinah finds she herself is part of a terrifying DNA experiment-masterminded by none other than the Demon Headmaster. Gillian Cross has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award, and the Smarties Prize, and is a highly-acclaimed author. The sales of Gillian’s books exceed one million copies.

Facing the Demon Headmaster

The new club Purple is the place to go – if you can get in – and Ellie persuades Dinah and her friends to come along too. The man everyone wants to see is DJ Pardoman whose face keeps changing from Elvis to Madonna to Brad Pitt. His electronic mask is mesmerizing but no one knows who he really is. When the kids visit his website they see there’s an online competition – the person who finds out about him will be allowed to lift off the mask. Dinah thinks it’s all weird but she’s also curious. In her search, she stumbles across something amazing – her real father might be alive after years of thinking he was dead. Dinah must find out more. But she only realizes the truth of these strange coincidences too late. This time the Demon Headmaster is intent on ensuring that Dinah will not interfere with his plans. 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.

The Dark Ground

A flight back from holiday. An explosion on the plane. Robert wakes up, alone in the jungle, with neither food nor shelter. Unfamiliar creatures are roaming about and he can’t get rid of the feeling that someone, or something, is watching him. This is the story of Robert’s struggle for survival from his realization of what has happened to him and where he is, to his perilous journey homeward. An incredible adventure story full of suspense and surprise.

The Black Room

Robert has come back from a horrible ordeal in a strange parallel world. Now he can t stop thinking about the people he left behind to face a winter that most won t survive. When Robert sees a chance to save his friend Lorn, he is desperate to succeed. But is he prepared for the realities of her world? Meanwhile, Lorn struggles to lead the little band of survivors, even as she feels herself drawn to a secret tunnel where an unknown menace lurks. Seamlessly blending fantasy with a hard hitting survival tale, Gillian Cross has created a completely original psychological thriller.

The Nightmare Game

The thrilling conclusion of a groundbreaking trilogy has arrived. Robert journeyed through a strange parallel world with the help of a tiny band of fellow survivors. Now home, Robert, with his best friend, Tom, and sister, Emma, are desperate to save the others before winter sets in and cold destroys their fragile existence. But the three friends discover a sinister connection between their own and the parallel world a darkness that will test their courage, their friendship, and their hope for the future. Seamlessly blending fantasy with a hard hitting tale of love and survival, Gillian Cross weaves the final tale in a startlingly original, spellbinding series.

The Dark Behind the Curtain

Events surrounding a school play take a deadly turn. Age group 8 plus.

Born of the Sun

For years, Paula and her father have dreamed and talked about trying to find the lost city of Atahualpa. And now, without warning, Paula is taken out of school and finds her dream come true. Together with her parents and Finn, the photographer, she travels to South America to begin the journey. But as they descend towards the jungle, Paula senses that all is not quite as it should be. Why is her father so moody and impatient? And why does he insist that the expedition is being shadowed by sinister enemies? Paula realizes that her loyalty to her father is not enough she must discover for herself what the truth is about the journey she is making.

On the Edge

When Tug wakes up, he is not in his own bedroom at home. The door is locked and there are bars across the window. Loud music hammers through the house and through his head. Then a woman comes in and says that she is his mother, but Tug knows that she is not his mother…
Outside, Jinny stares through the trees at the lonely house on the hill. She hears strange noises, but she turns away. After all, it’s none of her business…

Swimathon!

For the first time ever, Barny Gobbo is stuck for a Good idea just when money is urgently needed to repair the school minibus. The answer comes when a rival school issues a team swimming challenge. Barny accepts but he has reckoned without the bombshell Clipper and Spag are about to drop. Clipper can’t swim! Can he and Spag teach her in time?

Chartbreak

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 to him, 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.

A Map of Nowhere

Nick is surprised when he finds a strange wallet in his school bag. And when he sees the strange note in it, which seems to belong to some kind of adventure game, he is even more intrigued. The wallet belongs to Joseph Fisher, and although he and Nick aren’t friends, Nick is determined to join in with this mysterious game. When his brother’s gang send him off to Joseph’s house to return the wallet, Nick finally becomes involved with Joseph and his eerie game. But why is his brother so keen for the two of them to become friends? And does Nick really want to become part of his gang?

Wolf

Cassy lives with her granny, until the night that she hears strange footsteps coming into their flat. The next morning, she is packed off to her mum’s a squat in London that her beautiful, simple mother shares with a couple of actors. Cassy does her best to throw herself into her mother’s life, even agreeing to take part in their travelling show called ‘Wolf’. But she can’t ever get rid of the feeling that something is following her, and something bad is going to happen. Her fear grows as time pas*ses, until Cassy knows she must face up to her past: who her father is, why he left and where he has gone. What she doesn’t know is that some questions are better left unanswered…

The Monster from Underground

Yellow Bananas Teacher’s Guide Based on the Yellow Bananas series, this resource for teachers helps reinforce and enhance what students learn in their core reading program through engaging activities that focus on reading skills. Teachers will find: activities that highlight the book’s main message and tie students’ responses to reading, writing, speaking, listening, and representing activities that connect the topic of the book to other curriculum areas notes to teachers with suggestions on how to implement an activity, adapt the activity to different levels and interests, and involve the home community quizzes to help as*sess an individual student’s comprehension reproducible blackline masters for students to use as worksheets for an activity 60 pages; 8 1/2 11′; binder; B&W text; full color cover Yellow Bananas are captivating chapter books designed to help young readers make the transition from storybooks to text based books. The next level up from Red Bananas, each book features short chapters, engaging full color illustrations, and a strong story about interesting characters. As their reading abilities develop, kids will want to make the jump from Red to Yellow Bananas! full color illustrations on every page provide a recognizable format for children short chapters introduce young readers to the concept of chapter books a variety of subjects, including science fiction, mysteries, and funny stories, will engage children’s interest Guided Reading level indicated for each book Teacher’s Guide reinforces and enhances skills learned in the core reading program

The Mintyglo Kid

Bennett School is celebrating its hundredth birthday and thinking about the next hundred years. There’s a prize for the best idea, and Barny, Spag and Clipper are sure they’re going to win. They’re planning something better than Spotty McGrew’s Slang Dictionary. Better than Soppy Elaine’s Fashions of the Future. They’re going to let people peep into the twenty first century…

Gobbo the Great

Bennett School is celebrating its hundredth birthday and thinking about the next hundred years. There’s a prize for the best idea, and Barny, Spag and Clipper are sure they’re going to win. They’re planning something better than Spotty McGrew’s Slang Dictionary. Better than Soppy Elaine’s Fashions of the Future. They’re going to let people peep into the twenty first century…

Save Our School

With their unusual talents, Clipper, Spag and Barney draw up an astonishing plan of campaign to save Bennett School. But all their stunts seem to go wrong somehow, and it looks as if the school will be knocked down after all.

Rent-a-genius

Sophy’s family has had enough of her helpful hints. When her mother suggests that she helps someone who really needs help, she sets up as ‘Rent a Genius’. Customers flock in, desperate for advice about mud and ballet and about grandmothers and friends. But there are too many problems.

The Great Elephant Chase

When the elephant came to town, Tad and Cissie went to the show like everyone else. Little did they know it would change their lives for ever. Because of the elephant, Tad and Cissie get involved in a chase across America, by train, by flatboat, and steam boat. Close behind is Hannibal Jackson, who is determined to have the elephant for himself. And how do you hide a large Indian elephant? BLThis book was the winner of the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award and the Smarties Prize. Gillian Cross has also won the Carnegie Medal and is a highly acclaimed author.

New World

This is a thriller about a girl who is asked to test the latest virtual reality game in which there seems to be something, or someone, else in the game playing on her most secret fears.

The Crazy Shoe Shuffle

It is Lee’s worst day ever! First, Mr Merton confiscates his football. Then Lee makes Miss Cherry cross, and thirdly, Mrs Puddock forces him to eat his school dinner. But on the way home, he meets a strange old women.

Pictures in the Dark

Charlie is always trying to find unusual things to capture on camera and takes a chance photograph in the dark of something swimming in the river. He thinks he knows what it was, but no one believes him. When the photo’s displayed at school, new boy Peter seems fascinated. It seems bizarre. But Peter’s weird, when he looks at people in a particular way, odd things seem to happen. As Peter becomes an outsider Charlie gets involved, worried that Peter’s being bullied. Soon Charlie finds himself unravelling a mystery that’s too strange to imagine one that becomes a matter of life and death.

The Roman Beanfeast

Davey’s class is doing a project on the Romans. The best piece of work will get a prize at the Roman feast on the last day of term, and Davey is determined to win. But so is Molly and she’ll go to any lengths to beat him. Davey has to make something really special. But what?

The Goose Girl

A revived version of this well known fairytale, which has been written especially for today’s children. It is one of a number of stories within a series, that have been rewritten and re illustrated by award winning authors and illustrators to celebrate the 1998 National Year of Reading.

Tightrope

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 that someone 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 .

Phoning a Dead Man

When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fianc ee Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John’s teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved.

Spooky Stories

In Mary Hoffman’s Dracula’s Daughter, when the Battys find a baby on their step, they decide to keep her. Angela grows up like any other child, until her teeth appear, sharp and pointed. At Halloween, more spooky things begin to happen too! Next, in Penelope Lively’s Debbie and the Little Devil, Debbie has no end of trouble with a little red devil who thinks it s a great joke to cheat in every game they play. But Debbie likes to win as well, so she decides to trick him using her own secret weapon! Bomber Wilson hates writing, so he s dreading keeping a nature diary especially when bossy Harriet makes fun of his ideas. But Bomber s fantastic discoveries in his garden at night make his diary more interesting than anyone could have imagined, in The Monster from Underground by Gillian Cross. Chilling, full color illustrations throughout from Chris Riddell, Valeria Petrone, and Chris Priestley add to the terror. Dare you open the cover of this spooky book?

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