Andee eagerly plans to bring Fan, Anna’s friend from China, to Ohio for the school year. But when Fan arrives, Andee is distant, Fan is unhappy, and Anna is caught in the middle.
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Corinne thinks jumbie stories are nonsense. but who can explain the yellow eyes that glow at the forest’s edge, or the mysterious stranger who visits the island witch?
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Trille thinks it would be nice for Lena to tell him just once that he’s her best friend: “She doesn’t need to say it loudly or anything. She could just say it hidden behind a cough.”
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Dory’s brother and sister’s advice to Dory about school? “Just try not to imagine things!” but when she describes her new friend as “extremely poufy,” they don’t think she listened.
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A man is pursued by a skunk everywhere he goes. In a cab, at the opera, and even on a Ferris wheel- he can’t shake the skunk! What does it want from him?
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“Ask me what I like.” What do you like?” “I like dogs. I like cats. I like turtles.” On a walk in the park, a girl and her father discuss her many, many interests.
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“Whirl. Swirl. Watch it curl by. Steam is steam unless…it cools high.” A brother and sister gaze at clouds, slosh through puddles, and experience the other phases of the water cycle through the seasons.
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Adrift and isolated as an Ungifted when her fiercely devoted husband, the leader of her people, suddenly and inexplicably commits suicide, Magda Searus seeks a spiritist who might not even exist as she searches for answers in the middle of a war that is destroying her world.
Nursery governess Rachel Woodley vows to destroy the socially prominent London family she never knew her allegedly dead father had when she returns to England in the wake of her mother’s death and discovers a scrapbook filled with suspicious photographs of her not-so-dead father.
Isabel has a brush with the supernatural as she investigates a boy’s impossibly vivid memories of an island near Scotland and a past life that he never lived.
