When a mysterious planet appears in the sky, the worlds scientists are baffled. But 11-year-old Orville has a nasty suspicion he knows its secret, and if he is right, the world could be doomed.
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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.
