Abe's life at boarding school changes for ever when he magically sets a whole team of 11-year-old footballers free from the 1942 team photograph. Still boys at heart, but now with the appearance of 50-year-old men, they are terrified of the headmistress, the witch who trapped them in the photograph 40 years before. An exciting chase ensues, as Abe and the headmistress's daughter, Alicia, try to save the footballers and get them away from the pursuing headmistress and her pack of witch sisters.

 

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

Will Gatti was born in London and worked in publishing before turning to teaching. His novels for children and teenagers have been published in Denmark, Holland, Italy and Germany. Will is now head of English at a secondary school in Surrey. Every summer, with his wife and two children, he goes to the family home in the west of Ireland to fish and to write. Tony Ross is one of the UK s top illustrators of children s stories. His books are published in twenty-two languages. "