The Cockatrice Boys

By Joan Aiken

Subjects: Young adult fiction, Juvenile fiction, Monsters, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Children: Grades 4-6, Epidemics, Trains

Description: Dark young adult fantasy novel. A plague of man-eating cockatrices has invaded Britain. Two plucky youngsters board the armoured train built by the military to take soldiers to the heart of the problem.