«Merci Suárez has never been like the other kids at Seaward Pines Academy -she doesn’t have a big house or take fancy vacations. She’s a scholarship student who lives with her extended family in three little houses they call Las Casitas.»
«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.»
«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?»