Bruce Coville

Sixth-graders Peter and Susan discover that their substitute teacher is a an extraterrestrial visitor with sinister plans for their classmates.

Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.

Fifth-grader Jennifer, who wants to be beautiful, purchases a talking toad at a magic shop and embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures.

"Gerald the griffin isn't brave enough or fierce enough to fit in with the other griffins of the Enchanted Realm. When he runs away to the human world, he finds himself up to his beak in trouble, friendship, and fun!"--

Having jumped into Luster, the land of the unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, the Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns.

Seeking to unravel the secret of the long enmity between unicorns and delvers, Cara travels through a strange underground world to the court of the centaur king. While on Earth, Beloved and her hunters make final plans to jump to the fantasy land of Luster and drive the unicorns to extinction.

Sixth-grader Nina and her best friend Chris discover a haunted house and must put together all the clues it holds in order to solve a supernatural mystery and save their own lives.

Nina and Chris are stunned when the ghost of a young Civil War era soldier appears to them and tries to give them a message.

Then Moongobble the Magician and his faithful toad, Urk, move into the cottage on the hill. Soon Edward has a job helping Moongobble. And Moongobble needs a lot of help, because it turns out he is not a very good magician. (His spells keep turning things into cheese!) Edward has never been so busy -- or so happy. But then someone threatens to stop Moongobble from ever casting another spell. Edward can't let that happen. He'll do anything to save his...

When Edward accompanies Moongobble into the Forest of Night to prove he is a magician of merit by obtaining the tears of a werewolf, he does not know what big surprises are in store for them.