Bedard, Michael

"Thirteen-year-old Simon and his friend Abbey become embroiled in mysterious and fantastical events surrounding the ancient Egyptian mirror of Simon's elderly neighbor, Mr. Hawkins. When the old man dies, a suspicious couple claiming to be his relatives move in. Simon, who has been plagued with a strange illness since first looking into the mirror, retrieves it from Mr. Hawkins' hiding place and seeks the help of a museum curator to unravel a dark spell tied to its original owner and to Mr. Hawkins' so-called niece"--Provided by publisher.

When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts.

Charles Endicott hides out at St. Bart's Church to avoid his piano lesson, but his life is turned upside down when a homeless girl is trapped by a falling stained glass window and he is blamed for the accident.

A young man discovers a homeless girl hiding in a church and attempts to uncover who she is and why she has lost her memory.

Three people find their lives in danger when a ghostly magician haunts them with visions of an extraordinary, deadly magic show he originally staged in 1936.

Spending the summer with her antiques store-owner aunt, who has recently suffered a heart attack, Ophelia lends assistance in her once fiercely independent aunt's neglected home and store before discovering long-buried family secrets.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song.

A fictitious story about Frances Loring and Florence Wyle who sculpted in clay.

A brief, fictionalized account of the daily lives of the Bront?s, told from the point of view of Charlotte.