Book description
ROOM 13
Somebody was in there. Somebody - or some thing.
There is no room thirteen in the creepy Crow's Nest Hotel, where
Fliss and her friends are staying on a school trip. Or is there? For
at the stroke of midnight, something peculiar happens to the door of
the linen cupboard next to room twelve. And something is happening to
Ellie-May Sunderland, too - something very sinister.
INSIDE THE WORM
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.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
'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
