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  • Published: 1 October 1996
  • ISBN: 9780440863496
  • Imprint: Yearling
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $23.00

World-Eater




A nailbiting thriller from master storyteller, Robert Swindells, winner of the 1993 Carnagie Medal.

'There's something in the sky... something terrible!'

On the night of the great storm, a mysterious new planet suddently appears in the sky. Orbiting the sun between Mercury and Venus, the huge blue-grey sphere has scientists baffled as probes reveal its surface to be flat and bare and its interior liquid.

Eleven-year-old Orville, absorbed in witing for his favourite pigeon to hatch her first eggs, is the first to suspect the true nature of the planet. But will anyone listen to his theory? And, if they do, can they avert disaster? For if Orville is right, the world is doomed . . .

  • Published: 1 October 1996
  • ISBN: 9780440863496
  • Imprint: Yearling
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $23.00

About the author

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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