stories of the otherworld from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
McNeil, Heather
2001
A collection of stories which introduce the Celtic faery folk of the earth and water, as well as their interactions with ghosts and their ties to music.
When sixteen-year-old Ivy starts a new life in her stepfather's castle in Scotland, she finds that her stepfather's grandmother is implacably hostile and some mysterious spirit in the castle is trying to injure her--and her new best friend is a ghost named Logan.
Sixteen-year-old Sami and her romance-writer mother spend a month in Scotland fixing up an old farm as a tourist destination, while Sami and her new friend Fiona hunt for the resident ghost and Sami helps resolve a centuries-old feud.
A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Miss Jean Brodie was a woman of ideas, wit, and charm who had a lover. The students she chose as her special friends were called the "Brodie set." One of them would betray her.
The Strega-Borgia children accidentally create 500 clones of themselves at the same time that the roof on their Scottish castle falls in, attracting evil contractors who want their home.
An account of the author's life on the northwest coast of Scotland describing his constant companions Mijbil and Edal, the otters, and other animals who shared his life there.
