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.

On her way to England from Nantucket aboard a British man-o'-war, Dido has many adventures when the ship is diverted to the land of New Cumbria in the southern hemisphere.

Ten short stories with elements of horror or the supernatural, including "The L-shaped Grave, " "The Shrieking Door, " and "Watkyn, Comma."

The Wolves Chronicles continue as Dido and her friend Simon, Duke of Battersea, have many perilous adventures trying to protect the ailing King James from the plotting of the evil Baron Magnus who is determined that his brutish son Lothar will be the next king of England.