Frank Cammuso

Salem Hyde just isn't like other kids. For one thing, she's stubborn, independent, and impulsive. For another, she's a witch. Salem acts first and thinks later—which means most of her thinking involves coming up with excuses!

Good thing she's been assigned an animal companion, Lord Percival J. Whamsford III. This over-anxious cat doesn't like Salem calling him “Whammy," and Salem doesn't like listening to his long-winded explanations

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"After escaping evil Baron Umbra, the sticky Underlings, and other creepy creatures of the Underwhere, Edison Beaker and his young sister, Tesla, are safe at home. And then their creature friend Knox comes calling. She needs help--back on the other side of the Night Door.Edison desperately wants to follow family tradition and become a true Creature Seeker, protecting the world from monsters and mayhem. So what else can he do but follow Knox? (With...

Salem's school is putting on a winter pageant and she needs to learn to ice-skate if she's going to get a part as a snow angel. She's also stuck babysitting, so she needs Whammy's help in order to balance her responsibilities.

After a genie fulfills Otto the cat's wish by turning the whole world orange, Otto realizes that his favorite color is not the best color for everything.

After selling enough cookies to earn her troop a camping trip, Salem discovers that the rest of the girls don't enjoy camping, so she and her cat, Whammy end up in the wilderness alone, with only magical mishaps for company.