Cassedy, Sylvia

In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.

A guide to writing prose, both fiction and nonfiction, and poetry.

Eleven-year-old Mary Ella, ashamed that her older brother Morton is a slow learner and longing for a friend of her own, is astonished when the flamboyant new girl on the block picks Morton for a friend.

Having found a dollhouse full of dolls in the orphanage where she leads an unhappy existence, Lucie creates a secret life for herself.

In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.

Being in a new place for Halloween is bad enough, but when Mike has a cold and can't go out in his cat suit, none of the visitors can cheer him up until the last one, who is wearing the best cat suit of all.

A guide to writing prose, both fiction and nonfiction, and poetry.

Twenty-six poems, all of which describe a means of transportation or something that travels, ranging from "Ark" to "Zeppelin.".

Twenty-six alphabetically arranged poems, each describing a room or a place ranging from "Attic" to "Zoo.".