«Las brujas de todo el mundo, bajo la apariencia de señoras comunes y corrientes, estarán celebrando su Congreso Anual. Han decidido convertir en ratones a todos los niños sirviéndose de un ratonizador mágico. ¿Conseguirán vencerlas el protagonista de esta historia y su abuela?»
«I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing…How odd, I thought: it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me for me to claim a life of my own.»
«Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She’s thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog, Rain, a name with two homonyms (reign, rein)…When a storm hits their rural town, rivers overflow, roads are flooded, and Rain goes missing.»
«In the old days, when Kate had no interest in boys, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotten human being. [She] wishes she could talk to her best friend, Marylin, about this. But Marylin is no longer her best friend. Or is she?»