The elephant was to change Tad's life. It was to involve him and his friend, Cissie, in a chase that led from Pennsylvania, down the Ohio River, up the Mississippi, and into Nebraska, by train, flatboat and steamboat.
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Other publications by Gillian Cross include The Dark Ground, Calling a Dead Man, Wolf, and The Demon Headmaster series. She is also the winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, and the Smarties Prize.
`A rollicking adventure of a book . . . that will leave you breathless. ' Daily Telegraph
`a wonderful book...the writing is so good that you don't even notice it ' Sunday Telegraph
`It's damn good storytelling ' Bookseller
`a beautifully-paced story...an exciting, genuinely rewarding adventure ' The Guardian
`an undoubted classic ' Sunday Times
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