Zilpha Keatley Snyder

A lonely twelve-year-old is convinced that the cat she finds is possessed by a witch and is responsible for her own strange behavior.

Life is never quite the same again for eleven-year-old David after the arrival of his new stepsister, a student of the occult.

Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.

Lost in the woods of Rathburn Park, eleven-year-old Matthew weighs the odds of dying from thirst, embarrassment, or at the hands of the forest's reputed ghostly inhabitants.

Although twelve-year-old Abby has always tried to deny that she has some kind of weird psychic power, she takes advantage of it to help her mother, a struggling private investigator, and, more importantly, to find her best friend's little brother when he goes missing at a ski resort.

Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.

Kidnappers in Italy have their hands full when the captive American children advise them on running a better kidnapping and on proper nutrition.

Now permanently settled with Aunt Fiona, who has adopted him and his siblings, thirteen-year-old William gets the chance to play Puck in a professional production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.