Cresswell, Helen

Posy Bates and her stray dog Buggins seem to get into nothing but mischief no matter how good their intentions are.

While collecting things to sell for a school White Elephant sale, two friends are given a lamp with unexpected magic qualities.

Collects nineteen short stories centered on scary themes by authors such as Agatha Christie, Ursula Le Guin, Ambrose Bierce, Ray Bradbury, and Sir Thomas Malory.

Two runaway children hide out in a theme park and become enmeshed in an unearthly battle between the forces of good and evil.

Polly Flint, a girl who sees things other people can't, finds herself involved with the "time gypsies" of Grimstone, inhabitants of a lost village who have become trapped in a time not their own.

When Molly's father, a fisherman, brings home a tiny pony from the sea, Molly is sure that the creature must be magic.

Polly Flint, a girl who sees things other people can't, finds herself involved with the "time gypsies" of Grimstone, inhabitants of a lost village who have become trapped in a time not their own.

The adventures and misadventures of a little girl, Posy Bates, who desperately wants a dog or cat for a pet.

Eleven-year-old Jack, the only "ordinary" member of the talented and eccentric Bagthorpe family, concocts a scheme to distinguish himself as a modern-day prophet.