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I once knew a sea witch. Honest! But she’s gone away to sea, now, as she always said she would. I wish she’d come back. When I look out across the ocean and see a patch of green, green water, I remember her eyes. And when I see the sun turn crimson-gold at sunset, I think of her masses of hair. It was the same pretty colour; roseamberine, she called it. (She pronounced it ro-zeem-ber-een.) I never believed what the kids at school said about her. But when I first saw her hair, I began to suspect. No ordinary person - or witch - could have hair like that.

As the late afternoon slowly turned to evening, she ate from her meager food supply. Her spirits plunged again. She would be all alone tonight. All alone forever. An empty, lonely future yawned before her.

Kelly reached for the door knob, but it was either jammed or locked. She jiggled it a few times and even kicked the door. That did it. The knob turned and she stepped inside the dimly lit storage room.

SECRET MISSION…Melissa is in deep trouble if she doesn’t make the best mission project in her 4th grade class. Popsicle sticks, cardboard, wood, styrofoam, molding clay–all great materials for building a scale-model of a historical mission, but not good enough for Melissa. When she writes to the mission, she receives printed information — and a mysteirous medallion in the mail. Melissa wonders who the antique gold medallion belongs to. Did a padre wear it hundreds of years ago? Why did someone send it to her?

… It wasn’t fair that the boys always won. Just once I’d love to score the winning point for the girls’ team. .

Sky Jones is SO eager for a special friend, she ignores the rules and mail-orders a monstrous fiend named Hobbi. When Hobbi’s braids twirl and her colored fingernails flash, WATCH OUT!

Skye nibbled on her lower lip and thought about the word “fiend.”

A demon, someone wicked, an evil spirit.

Skye hadn’t ordered a best friend.

She’d ordered a monster.

When Lacy Sinclair loses her boyfriend, she uses a mysterious love potion to get him back. But the magic turns out to be more powerful than Lacy expected — and she’s astonished by her new popularity. It’ll take more magical twists before Lacy can discover that real magic can be found in true friends.

Lacey felt like one of Mac Beth’s witches, chanting about bubbles, toil, and trouble as she mixed Amore Aroma. Only instead of a huge dark caldron, she was mixing her brew in a broken coconut shell. And instead of a boiling mist, she had a handful of soggy, sticky muddy, rose petals.

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