Jon wants to be friends with Paul but finds herself constantly at odds with him over his efforts to prevent her from becoming acquainted with the strange girl she meets in the woods.
With the help of a ghost in a blue velvet dress, bookworm Jane survives the disaster of finding herself on vacation without a single book at her disposal.
In trying to cast a spell with a love potion designed to bewitch handsome but conceited Stormy, fourteen-year-old Miranda actually conjures up the ghost of a boy who died in 1958.