superstition

Roscoe is determined to guess the weight of a giant pumpkin in order to win books for his school library and candy for himself, but is overwhelmed by superstitions, especially about a certain black kitten.

Explores twenty-five superstitions and how they may have started, including those about walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and opening an umbrella indoors.

Nicky is on his way to breaking the record for most runs batted in, but first he must overcome his superstitions, and someone who doesn't want to see the old record broken.

In seventeenth-century Yorkshire, Lucy's sister Sarah suspected by many to be a changeling, a fairy child substituted by the fairies for a human child.

Discusses the origins of hundreds of signs and charms, including crossed fingers, full moons, Friday the thirteenth, and more, and examines the cultural context of each superstition.

While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.

After the Midsummer War ends, Meg Morgan faces a madman in the battle for control of the last bastion of fairies in England, aided by her siblings Rowan, Silly, and James, and American neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan.

Gives the facts behind a variety of superstitions.

"A small sampling of the many symbols, charms, expressions, and behaviors that have a story behind them." Included are an alphabetic "encyclopedia of well-known and lesser-known superstitions, symbols, talismans and charms"--Cover.