Ghost Riders

by Alex Gutteridge

Stephen is driving with his mother and brother through a dark wood, reputed to be the place where highwaymen held up travellers in the past, when the car breaks down. They set out to walk to his grandmother's house and Stephen, lagging behind, has astrange meeting with two highwaymen who disappear into the mist before reaching the others. He knows he won't be believed so says nothing but later events prove to him that something out of the ordinary has happened.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 2005

About the author

Alex Gutteridge is the author of 12 children’s books. Her work includes humorous young fiction, stories for reluctant readers and YA novels. Her book Oven Chips for Tea was broadcast on the radio and her 2013 novel, Last Chance Angel, was short-listed for eight awards including the Romantic Novelists’ Book Award in the young adult category. She has had two picture books published in South Korea and her latest YA novel, No Going Back, published by Templar Books was commended at the Sheffield Book Awards and won the Northamptonshire Children's Choice Book Award.

Alex was born and brought up in Leicestershire where she still lives. An only child she spent a lot of time making up stories inside her head and sometimes getting into trouble for that! Her first book was based on an old Leicestershire legend about a highwayman and his wife and nearly all of Alex's books have been submitted as unsolicited manuscripts.

Alex is currently working on another YA novel and has just completed some young fiction and an adult romance.

Alex occasionally blogs about her writing inspirations at alexgutteridge.blogspot.co.uk
You can also find her on Facebook and Twitter.

Reviews

[Ria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story about two kids, David and Stephen who go to visit their gran on her birthday, the car breaks down and Stephen is nervous as his mother has told him stories of Highwaymen in that area, they walk to gran's house but along the way Stephen lags behind and has a ghostly encounter where he believes he met the ghosts of the Highwaymen but he is not believed by his mother until they get back to the broken down car and see that they also have been robbed.
Spooky and an exciting childrens read.