Moonwailer

ust for once Billy Hardacre wants to have a holiday where nothing goes wrong. Nothing dangerous, nothing weird and definitely nothing spooky. A school camping trip to the Yorkshire Dales with his best friend Callum has Billy very excited, but before he leaves, his mother reads his tea leaves and warns him to be on the lookout for a tall, dark, unfriendly man. Before they even reach their campsite, the school group are stopped by police warning them about a stray dog, they keep finding dead animals hung over fences and Billy's sixth sense gives him troubling feelings. There is a legend on the Dales of a boy with a tragic past, who sold his soul to get revenge on his evil stepfather. He now haunts the Dales as a Moonwailer, a werewolf like creature of incredible agility and strength. Mr Duder, Billy's teacher, tells them it is just a story, but Billy isn't so sure. Everywhere he goes, he feels like he's being watched, and ghostly howls keep echoing across the night. Together with Callum, who knows better than to ignore one of Billy's strange feelings, and a local priest, Father Boniface, Billy sets out to rid the Dales of the Moonwailer once and for all, before one of his teachers or classmates gets hurt.