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The Dark Behind the Curtain


Point Series

No. of pages 160

Published: 2010

Great for age 9-12 years

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'This play we're doing, it's not true, is it? I mean, there never was a Sweeney Todd who killed people?' Jackus never wanted to be in the school play, but he didn't have much choice. Now he sees that what's unfolding on-stage is more than just acting, more than just pretend. Strange things are happening. Terrifying things. Ghostly footprints. Unexplained whispering. The touch of a cold hand in the shadows . . . What has been woken by the play's dark words? Can Jackus stop it, or are the actors doomed to play out the tragedy to the bitter end?

 

 

This book features in the following series: Archway Series, Point, Point Original Fiction .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press .

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.

 

This book is in the following series:

Archway Series

Point Series

Point-Original Fiction

Probably the best ghost story of my childhood . . . when I think back to my favourite books ever, this is one of them. * Amazon reviewer *

 

compulsive reading * Junior Bookshelf *

 

a thoroughly nightmarish and at the same time utterly convincing ghost story * Times Educational Supplement *

 

a well-wrought plot . . . vividly-drawn characters, and a unity of setting, oppressively enclosed. * Times Literary Supplement *