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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Alison, who went away	Vivian Vande Velde	Three years after the disappearance of her older sister, fourteen-year-old Sibyl and her family struggle to continue their lives, separately and together.	OL14849891W
Stolen	Vivian Vande Velde	A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be sto…	OL14849903W
Troll teacher	Vivian Vande Velde	Elizabeth tries to tell her family that there is something wrong with her new teacher, but they cannot see it, even though Miss Turtledove has orange eyes, eats desks, and throws fruit at the student…	OL14849905W
Witch's Wishes	Vivian Vande Velde	Magical fantasy for children. On Halloween, six-year-old Sarah encounters a witch who repays her kindness by making her magic wand real for the night, resulting in a series of wishes come true tha…	OL14849908W
A coming evil	Vivian Vande Velde	During the German occupation of France in 1940, thirteen-year-old Lisette meets a ghost while living with her aunt who harbors Jewish and Gypsy children in the French countryside.	OL14849910W
The Conjurer Princess	Vivian Vande Velde	One day Lylene was a bridesmaid, all dressed up for her older sister's wedding to a neighboring prince. A week later, Lylene was a wizard's apprentice, determined to gain the power to rescue her sist…	OL14849911W
Heir Apparent	Vivian Vande Velde	In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, loca…	OL14849915W
Magic can be murder	Vivian Vande Velde	Set apart from other people because of their unusual abilities, Nola, a teenage witch, and her mother find themselves in great danger when Nola uses her power to call up images and witnesses a murder.	OL14849916W
Being Dead	Vivian Vande Velde	Seven supernatural stories, all having something to do with death.	OL14849921W
A hidden magic	Vivian Vande Velde	An original and delightful parody of the classic fairy-tale genre ... The story of the quite ordinary but spirited princess-heroine Jennifer, who finds herself in the position of saving the life of a…	OL14849922W
Three Good Deeds	Vivian Vande Velde	Caught stealing some goose eggs from a witch, Howard is cursed for his heartlessness and turned into a goose himself, and he can only become human again by performing three good deeds.	OL14849925W
Wizard at Work	Vivian Vande Velde	A young wizard, who runs a school to teach wizards, looks forward to a quiet summer off but is drawn into adventures with princesses, unicorns, and ghosts instead.	OL14849929W
Companions of the Night	Vivian Vande Velde	When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. When Kerry's little bro…	OL14849930W
Dragon's Bait	Vivian Vande Velde	Wrongly condemned of witchcraft, fifteen-year-old Alys is tempted to take revenge on her accusers when the dragon to which she has been sacrificed turns out to be an ally.	OL14849931W
Smart dog	Vivian Vande Velde	Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab.	OL15397182W
Being dead	Vivian Vande Velde	Seven supernatural stories, all having something to do with death.	OL16038561W
8 class pets + one squirrel [divided by] one dog = chaos	Vivian Vande Velde	A dog chases a squirrel into an elementary school one night, creating monumental chaos.	OL16163186W
Deadly pink	Vivian Vande Velde	Fourteen-year-old Grace must find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality RPG (role playing game)--before it is too late.	OL16167349W
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection	Gary A. Braunbeck,Jane Yolen,A. S. Byatt,Vivian Vande Velde,Pat Cadigan,Stephen King,Midori Snyder,Louise Glück,Charles de Lint,Michael Marshall Smith,Pat Mora,Susan Moody,Robert Reed,Tanith Lee,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Peter S. Beagle,Edward Bryant,Terry Windling,Peter Crowther,Douglas E. Winter,Steve Rasnic Tem,Patricia A. McKillip,S. P. Somtow,Lamsley, Terry,Ursula K. Le Guin,Ellen Datlow,Nancy Willard,Joyce Carol Oates,Christopher Kenworthy,Scott Bradfield,Eileen Kernaghan,Margaret Atwood,Neil Gaiman,Rick Moody,Lucy Taylor,Ellen Kushner,James Frankel,David J. Schow,Delia Sherman,Sharon N. Farber,Stuart Dybek,Sue Kepros Hartman,Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin,Mary O'Malley,Marcia Guthridge	A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summ…	OL17745046W
Cloaked in red	Vivian Vande Velde	Presents eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme.	OL18155081W