Maguire, Gregory

A giant spider and several other odd creatures from the earlier books in the Hamlet Chronicles return as the small Vermont town celebrates a grammar school graduation, Miss Earth's wedding, and the Fourth of July.

A fantasy story about the life of the Wicked Witch of the West from "The Wizard of Oz" that challenges commonly held notions about the nature of good and evil.

Winifred Rudge travels to London to jump-start her new novel, but instead she finds herself investigating the dissappearance of her stepcousin, whose apartment seems to have been taken over by a hostile spirit.

Twelve-year-old Alice, an orphan who has never been adopted because of her physical handicap and difficult personality, is shocked to discover she has an identical twin sister living nearby.

The students of Miss Earth's class in rural Vermont experience an eventful spring when they become involved with a bullying new student, a competitive egg hunt, and genetically altered chicks.

Now an old man living in the United States, Marcel recalls his childhood in German-occupied France, especially the summer that he and his older brother Rene befriended a young German soldier.

The students' scheme to find a love match for their beloved teacher on Valentine's Day turns into a comedy of errors when four stupid cupids from Ancient Greece try to help.

The town of Hamlet has a very unusual Christmas when aliens crash land in a UFO, escalating the competition between the rival clubs the Copycats and the Tattletales.

Crabby Cratchitt has a hen whose constant clucking is so annoying, Crabby devises a plan to cook her in a frying pan.

Presents a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, set in early sixteenth-century Italy, in which the life of innocent, young Bianca de Nevada is disrupted when her beloved father is sent on an errand by Cesare Borgia, leaving her in the care of Borgia's sister Lucrezia, a decadent woman who orders the child killed.