Most Popular Books by Gillian Cross

The study of working conditions that Susan, Chris, and Abigail conduct at a small factory in their English town leads to a strike with the three students caught between the workers and the owner.

Crumble Lane School is so dull that the spiders on the ceilings yawn. The school uniform is grey, the classrooms cold and bare and the teachers as dull as dust. The only happy person there is Natalie, who spends all her time doing what she loves best: maths. But then, enter Posh Watson, with his purple jacket, giant sunglasses and pink musical trainers, saying things like abso-doodle-utely and hoo-doodle-ray. And, before you can say fan-doodle-tastic, everyone is copying him - except Natalie, who thinks that the whole school has gone mad

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

Buddy hates to write and is unhappy about having to keep a nature diary for a week until he decides to survey the night sky and discovers something weird in his neighbor''s backyard that makes for a truly interesting diary.

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.

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.

Something strange is going on a Lizzie''s school. Suddenly everyone''s brilliant at something. Where have these amazing skills come from? And why can''t they talk about them? It''s as though the pupils have no power over their own actions. Could this be something to do with the mysterious new headmaster . . . ?

Word count 10,300 Suitable for younger learners

The Hunter family have moved house and can finally forget all about their encounters with the Demon Headmaster . . . or can they? Just as they start to relax, Dinah, Lloyd, and Harvey notice that the villagers are all speaking the same robotic phrases. This can only mean one thing . . . theDemon Headmaster is back and this time he''s planning a terrifying experiment.Great fun and 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!

En el fondo, Nick sabia que debia negarse a seguir espiando para La Compania, destruir la carta y olvidarse de ellos, incluso si debia pagar las 10 libras de la apuesta. Tenia que decidir entre perderlo todo (sus amigos, el juego y las 10 libras, su oportunidad de entrar en La Compania) o ayudar a robar la tienda. Mas de una vez todo adolescente siente que se encuentra en ninguna parte. Ojala todos tuvieran una obra como esta para ayudarlos a definir las coordenadas de su vida.

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.

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.

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

A compilation of three slightly chilling tales includes "Dracula''s Daughter," in which a family adopts the baby on their doorstep and enjoys bringing her up, though her teeth grow sharp and pointed until Dracula comes to claim her for his own.