Book description
High school was never going to be easy when your father is the Grim
Reaper. Nathan's father, the Grim Reaper, doesn't trust him with a
scythe, and for good reason - this kid's dangerous. Nathan is granted
the next best thing: the ancestral book of curses The 101 Damnations -
but only after promising faithfully never to use it. Like that's going
to happen Now there's an assassin coming to 'whack' the principal, the
deputy is a nanny goat, the family heirloom is torn to shreds, and
suddenly Mother Grim-Reaper wises up and demands The 101 Damnations be
returned, now. Imagine a school made up of every kind of ghoul you can
imagine, from zombies to werewolves, vampires to grim reapers - that s
Horror High! Paul Stafford is a literacy consultant in primary and
secondary schools throughout Australia, specialising in reluctant male
readers. One of his literacy projects for boys, 'The Dead Bones
Society', won a NSW Local Government Cultural Award in 2007. Paul has
written thirteen fiction books, distributed throughout Australasia. He
has published four titles in the Horror High series with Random House
Australia, and You're History, Mate!, about the dingbats, dills and
disasters in Australia's history.
