After their adventures on Bird Island 'Scratch the Surface'] everything seems to be settling down again at Ashbury Old Common Comprehensive. That is, until the arrival of Steven 'Spider' Sissons disrupts everyone and everything. Martin feels that he has a rival in the form 'hard man' stakes, while Joanne falls very heavily for his dubious charms in spite of Alison and Matthew's attempts to warn her. Then the school is broken into and some equipment taken from the technician's room. Is Spider Sissons to blame? If not, as Joanne so fervently believes, then why is he so suddenly suspended from school? Much to everyone's surprise, it is the awful Sharon who holds the vital clue. I the first book, 'Scratch the Surface', it was found that people are often not what they at first appear. In this sequel, it is shown that some people often deliberately present themselves to the outside world as quite different from what they are really like 'Beneath the Surface'. Other books by Susan H Trought Childrens: Scratch the Surface Oak House Tha Sphere of Thesa Into the Dreamtime Jimmy Miller The Harbour Cafe Romantic fiction: Fly Away Home