Barbara Constance Freeman

Children's book. Adelaide, Grand Duchess of the Little Empire, was a little startled to find a fox on a broom outside her window.

Children's novel. A young boy has been adopted and raised by school cats, but he is getting too big to sleep in the stationery cupboard. There is an empty house nearby, but the rats who live there don't want anybody moving in.

In the long line of distinctive Dovewood family faces, another face occasionally appears. Betony has that other face and unlocks its mystery when she finds a miniature china cottage.

An English girl who has always loved the eighteenth-century mansion in her town, although she has never been inside it, ventures to explore it shortly before it is to be torn down, and meets a man with a beard who can model for her artist sister. She tells the story of the old house and of the difference it and the bearded man make in her life.

For a reason she doesn't understand, Caroline is compelled to return to the town of her childhood on her sixteenth birthday and there meets a stranger with familiar ways and learns the meaning of a recurring dream.

Young adult ghost story. A mysterious singing in the garden of the house next door sets a young girl delving into the past to discover its meaning and its source.

From the cover flap: Jenny Lydstone was a poor relation. She lived with her cousin Doe, mistress of Longcommon House, a mansion not far from London. Cousin Doe was beautiful, fashionable, and tyrannical; and Jenny was very much afraid of her. Jenny's only friend was Miss Summerdale, her governess. Miss Summerdale had one remarked in a history lesson, "One must resist tyranny wherever one finds it." When she was dismissed for taking Jenny's part in a dispute, Jenny felt that she too must make a stand. She ran away from Longcommon House and set out to follow her governess to London...

Left behind when the other griffins fly south, shy Timi is taken in by the village baker.