Something's going on in Weeping Wood. There's an awful sound coming from deep in the woods, like ghostly babies crying. It is time for The Outfit to investigate. But they had better watch out, because they are not the only people interested in Weeping Wood.
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. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
