"You try telling your mother that you can't get to sleep because there's a ghost sitting in the room clacking its knitting-needles and humming." - Or that there's a Martian at the front door. Or that there's a dragon living underneath the house. Or that your pet dog talks to you. - She'll never believe you. You might not even believe it yourself. But strange things do happen - and these witty and ingenious tales show just how extraordinary life can be.
Strangely attracted to an antique doll, twelve-year-old twins buy the toy and soon find themselves haunted by powerful and tragic memories of ancestral twins who had also been owners of the doll
The adventures of Leo in which he finds a lost dog, surprises the class on book report day, and survives his mother's experiments with vegetarian cooking.