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The Scream

OUT OF PRINT

The Scream

David’s Gran has a mysterious liking for the famous painting ‘The Scream’. She has strange powers, and sends bad luck to people she doesn’t like. On her Scottish island home she was a ‘Ridder’ who could make troublesome rats run into the sea. Now she has moved to the city to look after her orphaned grandchildren, but her dark secrets have come with her…

A tense, exciting and disturbing new story from Joan Aiken, whose magical, fantastic and supernatural books for children are among the best ever written.

CategoriesHorror
Type Of BookMiddle Novel
FormatPaperback
ISBN9780330397032
Published30/01/2003
Price Per CopyRRP $12.95
1–9 copies$11.65
10–19 copies$11.00
20+ copies$10.36
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Joan Aiken

Award- winning Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924 and came from a family of writers. Her father was the novelist and poet, Conrad Aiken and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, writes historical fiction for adults. Before joining the ‘family business’ herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. First published in l960, she went on to become one of our greatest writers for children, best known perhaps for her WOLVES OF WILLOUGBY CHASE series of ten novels. Joan Aiken died in 2004.

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