Book description
Horror High s werewolf cricket team are about the play the game of
their lives... When Principal Skullwater bets on the Interghouls'
Cricket Cup, the pressure is on the werewolf cricket team. Their team
are rubbish, their opponents are pros, and if they lose the match
they're expelled from school. Desperate, team captain Jason-Jock
Werewolf trawls through his 'magic' book, a publication so shonky I
could've written it. It advises they dig up the skeleton of a
professional cricketer, grind the bones, and imbibe the slop - and they
actually do it. I never claimed they were gifted. Place your betsÂ
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.
