Synopsis
The move of the Hayton family to a new home, an old
house with a history, triggers off a series of strange
events which connects the past to the present and the
future. Fifteen-year-old Graham gradually comes to believe
that the ghost of a World War One soldier is haunting
the house and causing disturbances linked to his father’s
job as a computer scientist working on a top-secret
new deadly weapons system, the StarRaider. When details
of the StarRaider appear on the internet, Mr Hayton
is arrested and tried for breaking the Official Secrets
Act. Is the ghost of the soldier responsible for jeopardising
the StarRaider, thereby preventing further death and
destruction, or is it the work of some political agency,
bent on protecting the world from a new weapon of mass
destruction?
Cross-curricular links and themes
- History
– WW1, the Falklands War, local history.
- Geography –
reading old maps and archive material.
- RE, PSHE
and Citizenship
– ethics of war, chemical and biological warfare,
the responsibility of the individual, conscientious
objection.
- IT –
computer technology, the internet.
- Themes –
highly relevant themes of weapons of mass destruction,
the internet and the ethics of war; appearance and
reality; duty and responsibility; family relationships.
| ISBN
0 340 89986 7 £6.99
January 2005 208pp |
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