When Daniel and the rest of the TechnoTerrors gang decide to raise money so that Stoneybrook School can get on the Internet, there are plenty of laughs but there's trouble brewing.

Charlotte's efforts to upgrade Big Bertha, their old computer, are a comical but costly disaster, especially when Jason plays his mean tricks. So it's up to the TechnoTerrors to produce some brilliant fundraising projects.

Unfortunately, Adam's attempts at plum picking, Roberto's spell in the pizzeria and even the sponsored "School Bounce" fail to bring in enough cash. So why does Laura's mum see a new computer for Stoneybrook in her crystal ball?

Permanently out of print at author's request

This is the only children's book I have written (apart from doing the English translation for a series of Biggles cartoon books a long time back.)

I enjoyed the experience of writing it and we had some wonderful reviews, and I had intended it to be the start of a series of stories about a group of school children getting into adventures and danger over the internet. I wrote the first one in 1995, in the very early days of the Internet. Yorkshire Television, now part of Granada, approached me, interested to buy the rights. Then some weeks later, they wrote to me, saying that after much deliberation, they had decided that children weren't really very interested in anything to do with computers. I think that remark should go down in history!!!!

Ultimately, although I had fun writing the book, and did in fact complete a second manuscript, I found I preferred the freedom of writing my novels - and still an amazing amount of kids seem to enjoy my adult books - the darker the better!

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