"The Birthday Burglar

by Margaret Mahy

Published 1 September 1984

The Haunting

by Margaret Mahy

Published 1 August 1982
The first of four spooky stories in verse.

The Changeover

by Margaret Mahy

Published 1 May 1984
When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.

Relates the tangled events that lead the students of the Unexpected School on Hurricane Peak to foil the wicked Sir Quincey and his accomplices and to solve several mysteries.