Most Popular Books by Gillian Cross

Something weird is happening at school. The children are too well behaved - almost like robots. What strange power does the eerie headmaster hold over them, and can anyone resist? Or are Dinah, Lloyd, and Harvey doomed to become part of the Demon Headmaster''s dark plan?

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.

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 . . . ?

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.

Word count 10,300 Suitable for younger learners

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.

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

The Demon Headmaster is in charge of a scientific research centre and has created an Evolution Accelerator: a machine to speed up the evolution process and produce the perfect human. But for this he needs Dinah''s DNA, and then plans to put her into terrible danger to test his theories.

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 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.

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.

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.