Ibbotson, Eva

Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue their king and queen's son who had been stolen as an infant.

A century after a yeti captures Lady Agatha Farlingham and takes her to a hidden valley to raise his motherless children, tourism threatens their peaceful existence and young Con and Ellen take these educated and civilized yetis across Europe to Lady Agatha's home in England.

When lonely, ten-year-old Hal learns that his wealthy but neglectful parents only rented Fleck, the dog he always wanted, he and new friend Pippa take Fleck and four other dogs from the rental agency on a trek from London to Scotland, where Hal's grandparents live.

Eighteen-year-old Ellen is surprised by the unique surroundings of the Hallendorf School in Austria, where she discovers an eccentric world filled with wild children, experimental dancers, a tortoise on wheels, and Marek, a part-time gardener and fencing teacher whom Ellen is attracted to, but when Hitler's Reich threatens the school, Ellen realizes the dangers their love faces.

A collection of three novels by British fantasy fiction writer Eva Ibbotson including "Which Witch?" "The Secret of Platform 13, " and Island of the Aunts.".

Young Englishwoman Ellen Carr, a housemother at an unorthodox boarding school in Vienna, has made a happy life for herself and the other workers and students she has taken under her wing, but the idyllic world she has created is disrupted when Hitler begins his reign of terror.

A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.

Tally and her friends at Dalderton Boarding School form a dance troupe and travel to Bergania, where she befriends Karil, the crown prince, and helps him flee the Nazis after his father is assassinated.

Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.