Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz

David Eliot doesn’t know what’s worse: being expelled from another school or having to return home to his maniacal parents.  Before he knows it, his tyrannical father has received a brochure from the mysterious Groosham Grange boarding school, located on it’s own island off Norfolk.  Before he can say “Suspicious”, David is sent packing off on a train his new school.  On the train he meets two other students on their way to Groosham Grange.  When the compare notes, the three children realize that there is something very fishy about their new school – and it isn’t just the smelly boat that takes them across to the island.  What kind of school asks the students to sign their names in blood?  What’s up with the odd teachers (one is wrapped up like a mummy, another has serious issues with the full moon)?  Things go from slightly weird to downright terrifying when students begin disappearing in the middle of the night.  Can David escape from this scary school?

This is not Hogwarts!  Readers be warned the Groosham will get gruesome!

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