A little girl's disappeared from right outside the school. Everyone's blaming Ragger Bill, the ragged man who lives in the school boiler room. But The Outfit are sure Ragger Bill's innocent and if the only way to prove it is to find the missing girl, then that's what they'll have to do.
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.
