New Releases by Gillian CROSS

A fantasy about a young boy whose meeting with a magical bag lady changes things at school for the better, since the teachers are turned into children for a short time, and they have a better understanding of the children when the magic wears off.

When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker''s reign of terror.

A chance photograph taken for the school Camera Club draws Charlie into the emotionally troubled lives of his classmate Jennifer''s family, especially that of her younger brother who harbors an astounding secret.

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 SPLAT gang discover that their former headmaster is behind a campaign to sell pig swill yoghurt and other disgusting merchandise by using hynoptism to turn a revolting television character into an irrestible cult figure.

In 1881 fifteen-year-old Tad helps a girl in her attempt to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, while pursued by two unscrupulous villians who wish to take the elephant from her"

Ben, David and Mitch don''t mean to wreck the Wellington Street Gang''s bonfire. But a single match makes it blow up - and something amazing happens. But is it a wonderful new power or an unbelievable disaster? The Wellington Street Gang are after them and the teachers are suspicious.

Cassy is forced to stay with her mother in a squatter''s settlement of artists, where she joins the group in producing an educational program about wolves and inadvertently learns that her missing father is a notorious terrorist.

Barny, Spag and Clipper want to do something really special for the competition that celebrates their school''s 100th birthday. Is the futurescope the answer...? Another book in the Barny, Spag and Clipper series. Gillian Cross has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award.

Leo couldn''t let Gloria die, but where do you keep a goat when you live in a first-floor flat? And then there''s the milking. Rachel and Harjinder help, but then ducks, hens and bees land on their doorstep as well, and Leo feels that things are getting out of hand.

Barny, Spag and Clipper are determined to win the inter-schools cricket league as the prize is a magnificent cricket pitch!