This book is part of a book series called Puffin Modern Classics .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Penguin Books Ltd .

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.