Jack BC Doghead

"It was back. The hair on his face was thicker than ever. But it wasn't just a beard. Now his eyebrows here meeting in the middle to form a thick band of blue-black hair across his forehead - a mono-brow gone wild."Jack Bootle-Cadogan is a fairly average lord-in-the-making, until he begins to sprout facial hair and some very pointy teeth. He can't go to school looking this ruff!Thanks to a family curse, Jack is destined to become Anubis, god of the dead. 50% human. 50% jackal. 100% busted.Can he master his new secret rituals and still win the school's running competition? Find out in a hilarious tale of a boy who's losing his head - but gaining a free pass to the pyramids, the undead, and a crazy collection of friends and family.A trilogy extravaganza of Egyptian adventures and a SWAGG Origin Stories series, from the author of the best-selling Jane Blonde series, Jill Marshall. Jill Marshall is the author of the best-selling Jane Blonde series and fiction for children, young adults and adults. Her middle-grade series about sensational girl spy, Jane Blonde,published by Macmillan Children's Books UK, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world, featured as a World Book Day title and reached the UK Times Top 10 for all fiction. Jane Blonde has been optioned for film and TV and is currently undergoing some exciting Wower-ish transformations.Jill has now brought Jane together with her other series in this age group - Doghead, The Legend of Matilda Peppercorn, Stein & Frank - in a fantastic new ensemble series. Meet the SWAGG team, and their first book, SPOOK.As well as books for tweens and teens, Jill writes for young adults and adults, each with a collection of three stand-alone novels. She also writes for younger children, with a Hachette-published picture book for teenies, Kave-Tina Rox.When she's not writing books, Jill is a communications consultant and a proud mum and nana. She divides her time between the UK and New Zealand, and hopes one day to travel between the two by SatiSPI or ESPIdrilles. Meet Jack Bootle-Cadogan, fairly ordinary lord-to-be - until he grows facial hair, pointy teeth and a need to mummify the dead. Destined by a family curse to transform into Anubis, Egyptian god of death, Jack battles pig-headed deities, his parents and his destiny as he helps Egyptian ruler Osiris find his way back to the throne and save the world from never-ending darkness under the rule of Seth.With hilarious buddies like Bone, Minty and Ozzy 'n' Ice facing a multitude of enemies and archeological annihilation, the trilogy takes Jack BC from the stately pile in Hampshire to the depths of the Nile. Pulling brains through noses? It's no challenge for Jack and his gang.This Egyptology extravaganza of adventures for readers of 10 and up is one of the SWAGG Origin Stories from author of the best-selling Jane Blonde series, Jill Marshall. Meet up with Jack again in the first of the S*W*A*G*G series, Spook.