There are 168 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 1999 by Scholastic .

Gillian Cross is perhaps best known for her Demon Headmaster series and its BBC adaptation. She has won many of the most prestigious awards for children's fiction, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Smarties Prize. Malorie Blackman was the 8th UK Children's Laureate and is one of the UK's highest profile authors for teenagers and young adults. She has won the Children's Book Award and a raft of other prizes and is the force behind the annual YALC event. Jean Ure is a prolific and highly regarded children's book author. She has been writing for many years, and had her first book published at the age of sixteen!