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Dinah and her brothers are pretty sure they're rid of the Demon Headmaster once and for all. When people start dismantling the research centre Dinah contacts Professor Claudia Rowe, who's an expert on artificial intelligence. With Dinah's help she saves some of the precious materials and they
become friends. Then weird things start to happen. Libraries start closing and their books are taken away. Telephones stop working, and there is no internet access. People start talking like robots-even Claudia Rowe-and more and more of them seem to be wearing strange badges. It all adds up to one
thing: the Demon Headmaster must be back. Dinah's search leads her to the university where she finds him developing a Hyperbrain-a computer with superhuman intelligence and deadly potential. Suddenly she's trapped. Is there any way to foil his plan?
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 Gillian's books exceed one million copies.
become friends. Then weird things start to happen. Libraries start closing and their books are taken away. Telephones stop working, and there is no internet access. People start talking like robots-even Claudia Rowe-and more and more of them seem to be wearing strange badges. It all adds up to one
thing: the Demon Headmaster must be back. Dinah's search leads her to the university where she finds him developing a Hyperbrain-a computer with superhuman intelligence and deadly potential. Suddenly she's trapped. Is there any way to foil his plan?
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 Gillian's books exceed one million copies.
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Other publications by this author include: 'The Demon Headmaster' series, 'The Dark Ground', 'Calling a Dead Man', 'Wolf', 'On the Edge' and 'The Great Elephant Chase'.
Gillian Cross is a winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, and the Smarties Prize.
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Gillian Cross is a winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, and the Smarties Prize.
When there is movement again at the old lab near her home, Dinah goes to investigate. Nothing seems disturbed, but Dinah is worried that her old nemesis, the Demon Headmaster, has returned. At first no one believes her, but when all the adults at the university start acting weirdly, when books are being removed from all libraries, when suddenly curiosity and inquisitiveness are wrong, Dinah and her friends must investigate and do what they can. Judy Bennett narrates this tale with humor, building the suspense to the inevitable crisis. She uses a wide variety of pitch and emotion to portray the many children's voices. Keeping the adult voices different from those of the children, although not as distinguishable, Bennett ably steers us to the inevitable, but still satisfying, end of this fun-filled story. W.L.S. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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