Twelve-year-old Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next--and Marinka is in training to be the next Yaga. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has other ideas...

Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house.

After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.

"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--Provided by publisher.