A Magnet book

Eight-year-old Derry listens as an old sailor tells him stories of his adventures at sea.

Two children befriend the old man known as the Birdman of Bryher and help him lift a curse from their island.

Once he becomes a pawn in a game played by a powerful group he calls them, 12-year-old Jamie is repeatedly catapulted through space and time.

Captain Wafer and the crew of the Sinful Sausage set sail for the Thousand Islands with a plot to kidnap a famous inventor, only to be thwarted by a witch, a firedrake, and the dastardly Dr. Silkweed.

In 2136 A.D. the settlers on the planet Isis, under the dominance of an absolute ruler, have lost all the technical knowledge of their forefathers and reverted to a primitive society dominated by myths and taboos.

Colin, the son of an English rector, suspects that the three strange women recently come to his village are actually witches in search of a magic stone figure from an old church.

Traveling to the desert island of Roshan to meet the young man that her aunt wants her to marry, Princess Antia becomes involved in a deadly power struggle when she uncovers secrets surrounding the ancient mystery of Roshan and the identity of the Sandwriter.

Relates in rhyme the many places one can find hair.

When unscrupulous scientists try to kidnap Norby in order to learn the secret of the robot's anti-gravitational capabilities, he and Jeff discover on the dragon-inhabited planet Jamya the key to an even more precious secret.

A snail must tolerate the threats presented by pesticides, a dog, a little girl, and most importantly one small boy.

The community of the planet of Isis, misled by power-hungry space captain Michael Joseph Flynn, moves down the path of destruction until Moira, the captain's daughter, exposes his self-serving designs.

After the Goon moves into the Sykes' house and refuses to budge, thirteen-year-old Howard learns some startling information about his family, including the fact that he is adopted and that his father is connected with the seven wizards who run the town.

When twelve-year-old Valerie and her brother and sister fall through a space trap and are transmitted to an alien planet, they seek ways to return to the thirty-second century.

When a very sensible English girl befriends an errant rhinoceros, the great beast becomes her lifelong companion.

Zed, a Lebanese-British teenager, recalls the agonizing ordeal during which he, as a timid eight-year-old hostage of an Arab terrorist group, learned about courage.

When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.

With another Ice Age imminent, fifteen-year-old Liza, bored with the restrictions of life in the protected City, stows away on a scientific expedition and finds herself inadvertently abandoned on the snow fields whose only inhabitants are the mysterious Ekoes.

Mole rediscovers the joys of home and with the help of Rattie entertains the Mousekin carolers and brings Christmas cheer to all.

After receiving the gift of Second Sight from his old friend, the Bodach, ten-year-old Donald becomes responsible for safeguarding the ancient power of the walking stones before their glen is flooded by a hydroelectric company.

A small bouncy dog likes to give the children he lives with the "licking treatment."

Not very good at sports or fighting, mild-mannered Willy nevertheless proves he's the champ when the local bully shows up.