New Releases by Gillian CROSS

Barny Gobbo issues a team swimming challenge with a rival school to raise money.

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.

Finding a note in Joseph''s lost wallet referring to dungeons and warriors, Nick becomes involved in a fantasy game which takes a dangerous turn when gang members send him on a quest which involves betraying Joseph.

Drie jongens en drie meisjes van het ''Genootschap Ons Tegen Hen'', het GOTH, worden door het schoolhoofd aangezet om in te breken in de computer van de minister-president, om zo de macht over het land te krijgen. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.

Juan and Santi are excited because their father is building them a tree house. Just after starting, however, he has to leave the country. The children are upset, but their father promises to send them a package with something for the tree house every month. He keeps his promise and the children now have to imagine how they will use each thing they receive. This is a wonderful book about an enriching relationship between parents and children.

Fourteen-year-old Miriam agrees to test a new computer game in utmost secrecy but finds that it is more than she bargained for.

In 1881, fifteen-year-old Tad, an orphan, helps a girl attempting to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, all the while pursued by two unscrupulous villains who claim that the elephant is theirs.

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.

Fiona hates the outside of things - skin, peel and crusts. She refuses to eat any of them. She doesn''t care if her hair doesn''t curl or her eyes sparkle. So when Olga comes to tea, Fiona is delighted. Olga loves eating the outsides. The only trouble is, she doesn''t know when to stop.

It''s Matthew''s first day of school, but his concern is for his little sister Emily. What will Emily do without him?

Sophy''s family has had enough of her helpful hints and her mother tells her to find someone who really needs help. So Sophy sets up as a rent-a-genius. Customers flock in, desperate for advice about mud and grandmothers, friends and tomatoes - but soon there are too many problems.

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.

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.

Dianh Hunter is enslaved by the revenge of the Demon Headmaster, a computer game called The Octopus Dare.

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.