Joan Aiken

The English countryside is ravaged by wolves, but their sinister presence is felt more around Willoughby Chase than anywhere else. When Bonnie's parents go abroad, she is left with scheming Miss Slighcarp, and this proves an even greater threat than the wolves.

Follows the adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Armitage and their children , Harriet, Mark, and little Milo, as they try to find innovative ways to cope with a variety of extraordinary events including stray unicorns in the garden, lessons in magic that go awry, and eviction from their house to make way for a young magicians' seminary.

The injured raven Arabel's father brings home can say only "Kaark" and "Nevermore" but he still manages to make great changes in the family's life.

Orphan Simon goes to London, uncovers a dastardly plot, and finally foils it at the annual Battersea Mince-Pie Tasting Ceremony. Grades 5-7.

Blending the homely with the exotic, this collection of fifteen macabre tales includes an eerie story about a six-year-old girl whose scalp is inhabited by Druids

As the result of an accident a young girl is faced with the responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames during the coronation of James IV.