Inside The Worm

Robert Swindells

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Reissue of a dramatic and gripping adventure from an award-winning author

The worm was close now. So close Fliss could smell the putrid stench of its breath. Its slavering jaws gaped to engulf her...
Everyone in Elsworth knows the local legend about the monstrous worm - or dragon - that once terrorised the village. But it never really happened. Or did it? For when Fliss and her friends are chosen to re-enact the legend for the village Festival, the four who are to play the part of the worm dance as one across the ground. They are the worm. And Fliss begins to feel real fear. Somehow the worm itself is returning - with a thousand-year hunger in its belly, and a burning desire for vengeance...

Published: 31 March 2012
ISBN: 9781448100156
Imprint: Penguin eBooks
Format: EBook
Pages: 192

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Fiction & true stories

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Robert Swindells

ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. He went on to become the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list, and in 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD.

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Praise for Inside The Worm

Robert Swindells knows how to make readers horripilate
Daily Telegraph

Short, finely-paced chapters, action without melodrama, chill with garish theatricality . . .
Books for Keeps

A fascinating tale and genuinely frightening in places. Timing is the essence of a thriller and the brief chapters push the story forward relentlessly
Junior Bookshelf