Mahy, Margaret

As the only Bancroft in a family of Fortunes, Lolly has always felt left out of her Fortune cousins' exclusive gang but when her parents separate Lolly discovers a new inner strength and aspects of kinship that go beyond names.

A collection of whimsical stories and poems about such creatures as a word wizard, a poetical cat, and a very small ghost who lives inside a book.

Two cousins living in a house that is haunted are drawn at night into a dream world which threatens to overwhelm their real world.

The famous spy, Iris La Bonga sets out to steal an inventor's mysterious potion.

In these two stories the protagonists have devilish fun with a former pirate and a band of robbers.

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.