Mahy, Margaret

A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's royal magician.

When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.

Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconventional mother, and her devoted friend Tycho.

On the fifth anniversary of his older sister's death, nineteen-year-old Jonny Dart, troubled by feelings of guilt and an imperfect memory of the event, goes in search of the only other witness to the fatal accident and, through a chance meeting with a senile old woman, finds a way to free himself of the past.

In the first of these two short stories, Bassington, a rich little boy who has never had a birthday, decides to steal one from Mrs. Herringbone and Joanna Joy. In the second story, headmistress Tatiana Taffeta seeks an affluent farmer's hand in marriage.

While Mrs. Castle works as an atomic scientist, Mr. Castle takes care of the house and children so efficiently that he soon finds himself with nothing to do until the backyard plum tree gives him an idea.

The relationship between Tracey Fortune and her brother Jackson is temporarily strained by Tracey's desire to be a bridesmaid in her cousin's wedding and by the mysterious messages that Jackson begins to receive.

When twins Harry and Miranda bring their buttoned-down father to the playground, he discovers that he does not want to stop sliding down the dragon's-tongue slide.

A collection of old and new favorites including Poodlum hoodlum, The strange egg, and The tick tock party.

Monty Merryandrew, a boy who sneezes whenever there is a ghost in the room, is sent to the Brinsley Codd School for Sensible Thought by his mother who is concerned about her son's belief in ghosts, but he runs into a really big problem when he discovers the school is haunted.