Her friends are suspicious, but nine-year-old Angela Harrell has solid reasons for wanting to believe in Pilaria, a resident of the Kingdom of the Faeries who longs for a friend and sends Angela strange, gold-dust-filled scroll letters. Jr Lib Guild.

Innocent investigations into magic take a dangerous turn as Poco and Georgina, two of the IOU trio from the hilarious The Gold Dust Letters, try to find a missing cat by using a Ouija board.

Nine-year-old Walter has no memory of his mother, who died when he was a baby, yet Walter is sure she is speaking to him. The voice of her ghost comes softly to him at first. . .almost like thoughts running through his head. Then, magically, she speaks more clearly, leading him to a sad statue of the Little Match Girl in the park where his picture had been taken when he was a baby. When he finds mysterious items from his infancy left at the foot of the statue, he believes the Match Girl has the magic power to reveal the secret of who he is—and who his mother was. Yet it takes Walter's own powerful imagination and a little help from Juliette, the cat, for Walter to make a most amazing discovery.

When Angela, a member of the Investigators of the Unknown, returns from Mexico with an unfriendly attitude toward those she has always been closest to, the Investigators wonder if Angela has been abducted and replaced by an alien. Reprint.