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Its off to ancient Greece for a split-your-side funny take on the politics of junior-high popularity.In ancient Greece lived a little girl called Medusa Jones. Medusa was a Gorgon, but apart from that, pretty normal. So she has snakes for hair instead of gorgeous blond ringlets like Cassandra. So her best friend is half horse. Is that any reason for the popular kids to be SO mean?Medusas sure the school camping trip is going to be a nightmare. But a rock fall puts the popular kids in peril, and Medusas the only one who can help. Will she be a hero -- or is her monster side finally going to come out? Its Freaks versus Heroes, brought to life by Ross Collinss hilarious illustrations!
About the Author
Ross was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1972. He would eat anything and resembled a currant bun. As he grew up he was fond of drawing, the Bionic Man and precariously swinging backwards on chairs. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 1994 with a First in Illustration. In the same year he won the MacMillan Children's Book Prize an achievement that opened many doors in the Big Smoke. Ross then spent two years in London cultivating an exotic image of the scribbling Scotsman abroad. Longing for the cold and damp of the North, Ross returned to Glasgow, where he spends his time writing and illustrating children's books, doing animation character development, walking the dug by the banks of Loch Lomond and precariously swinging backwards on chairs. from
