A twelve-year old boy and his friends make a grisly discovery whilst rooting about in a disused railway tunnel. They are plunged into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel unfolds its sinister secret.
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Grade 5-7–Tristan, the hero of British author Robert Swindell's novel, hangs out with his friends on the Tangle, a large abandoned area full of weeds and trash and the end of a defunct train tunnel. Usually, the children fear only the local bully, Gary Deacon, but lately they've been getting eerie feelings when close to the tunnel entrance. After finding white mice which they take home to keep as pets, Tristan and his friends find a human skeleton in the tunnel. Strangely, the skeleton is of a man who had only been missing for four days, and the mice are beginning to reproduce in large numbers, filling the Tangle. Tristan soon realizes that his pet mice are not mice at all, but an alien race capable of merging into one mind and one body, thus explaining the skeleton and other strange happenings in the small town. When his friend, Diane, decides to catch a mouse and is almost killed by a wave of white mice, Tristan and a local reporter realize that something must be done to save their town and, possibly, the world. Swindell builds horror and suspense without the blood and guts. His use of British slang will be hard for some students to follow. The plot, however, is almost too easy to follow, providing clues to the climax and resolution. Jamie Glover does a good job of changing voices to distinguish between characters and makes Tristan's voice a believable one. With its methodical story, this recording could be used in middle school discussions of plot and its elements. It is also a good choice for schools and public library horror collections.–Lisa D. Williams, Chocowinity Middle School, NC
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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'So scary you're afraid to turn the page' -- Young Telegraph
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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.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.
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