Diana Wynne Jones

Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.

A collection of eighteen short stories and excerpts from longer works of classic and contemporary fantasy by such authors as Jane Yolen, C.S. Lewis, L. Frank Baum, and E. Nesbit.