Author: Gillian Cross
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Keywords: headmaster, demon, revenge
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-06-03
List price: $10.35
ISBN-10: 0192753738
ISBN-13: 9780192753731

There’s a new craze - Hunky Parker. Everyone’s watching the TV programmes and queuing up to buy Hunky T-shirts, trainers like pigs’ trotters and pig-swill yoghurt. Is it just normal hype or is something sinister going on? When there are riots, Dinah and her friends start to investigate. But someone has a plan, and they’re not going to let it be scuppered by a bunch of kids. Gillian Cross has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award, and the Smarties Prize, and is a highly-acclaimed author. Sales of her books exceed one million copies.

Author: Louis Auchincloss
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: dilemma, headmaster
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0618883428
ISBN-13: 9780618883424

In The Headmaster’s Dilemma, Louis Auchincloss revisits the prep school world of his most famous novel. That book, The Rector of Justin, published in 1964, took the form of a fictional biography, giving the reader the full life story of a much beloved and revered, if also feared, headmaster of an exclusive New England prep school. In The Headmaster’s Dilemma, we see up close what happens when a school’s ideals and founding principles collide with the exigencies of change.The Headmaster’s Dilemma is the story of Michael Sayre, the handsome, avant-garde headmaster of Averhill, the great