Title: The Cockatrice Boys
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Trains, Monsters, Children: Grades 4-6, Epidemics, Juvenile fiction, Young adult fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
Places: Great Britian, Manchester, Scotland