Book description
The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench
of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her...
Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm
- or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it never really
happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to
re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play
the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the
worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is
returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning
desire for vengeance...
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.
