Axel's teacher, Mr Crump, is sick to death of Axel showing him up all the time. The boy is a menace, and he can't stand it any longer - but he doesn't have to. Mr Crump has a master-plan to ship Axel off to Hangem High, a secondary school where all the pupils are twice his size, and there's a distinct possibility that the headmaster is a vampire...

 

This book features in the following series: Axel Feinstein, Young Hippo .

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Scholastic .

Lizzie Finlay is the illustrator of A Tale of Two Wolves (Flying Foxes 2002). She studied Illustration at Exeter College of Art and has published a number of picture books, including Sam's First Day (Mantra 2000) and Buri and the Marrow (Mantra 2000). Her line drawings appear in I'm Telling You (Cambridge Young Writers Award, CUP 2000) and Write Here Write Now (DfEE/CUP 2000). This is her second book for Random House. Alan MacDonald lives in Nottingham. He writes both non-fiction and fiction as well as writing for radio and TV. He has a particularly good track record for writing page-turning and accessible historical books.