Book description
'There's something in the sky... something terrible!'
On the night of the great storm, a mysterious new planet suddently
appears in the sky. Orbiting the sun between Mercury and Venus, the
huge blue-grey sphere has scientists baffled as probes reveal its
surface to be flat and bare and its interior liquid.
Eleven-year-old Orville, absorbed in witing for his favourite pigeon
to hatch her first eggs, is the first to suspect the true nature of
the planet. But will anyone listen to his theory? And, if they do, can
they avert disaster? For if Orville is right, the world is doomed . . .
ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local
newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then
trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the
author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House
children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD
(Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're
afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH
