Eva Ibbotson Books in Order

Gentle ghost Humphrey and his family are driven from their castle by modern developers. With help from a fearless schoolboy, they set out to find sanctuary for Britain's displaced ghosts.

Arriman the Awful needs a dark witch for a wife and sets a contest to choose one. Unfortunately for Belladonna, the witch who loves him, her magic keeps producing kindness instead of wickedness.

After the Russian Revolution, Countess Anna Grazinsky takes work as a housemaid at Mersham. She tries to hide her past, but her warmth unsettles the household and the engaged Earl of Westerholme.

Princess Theresa-Maria hides from her crumbling inheritance by working backstage at a Viennese opera company as Tessa. When self-made Englishman Guy Farne arrives, her secret life and royal duties begin to collide.

This short collection of monster tales serves odd punishments to snobs, show-offs, and anyone foolish enough to bother strange creatures. A snooty princess and a hungry worm set the tone for Ibbotson's strange little fables.

This collection gathers romantic and comic stories set in places such as Vienna, Russia, Paris, and the Amazon. The title tale follows a secret passion that begins in a glove shop.

Harriet Morton escapes a narrow Cambridge life by joining a ballet company bound for Manaus. In the Amazon, dance, freedom, and Rom Verney open a future her family would never have allowed.

When young Alex MacBuff sells his haunted Scottish castle to Texas millionaire Hiram Hopgood, the ghosts are supposed to disappear. Instead, castle, spirits, kidnappers, and Hopgood's lonely daughter collide in Granite Falls.

Twelve-year-old Alex MacBuff must sell Castle Carra, but the buyer insists it be ghost-free. Alex's beloved phantoms, including a Viking and a toothless vampire, are not ready to leave quietly.

In 1911 Vienna, dressmaker Susanna Weber keeps a journal of her shop, neighbors, customers, and private worries. Around Madensky Square, love affairs, music, politics, and small crises gather before the old world changes.

Heckie is a good witch who can turn wicked people into animals, which seems useful until a greedy furrier discovers her power. With children and other witches helping, she must stop his cruel scheme.

In Nazi-controlled Vienna, Ruth Berger is separated from her family and desperate to reach England. Scientist Quinton Somerville offers a marriage of convenience, but safety brings complications neither of them planned.

Every nine years, a hidden doorway at King's Cross opens to a magical island. When the island's prince is kidnapped and raised in London, an odd rescue party has only nine days to bring him home.

Orphaned Oliver inherits Helton Hall, but greedy relatives want him gone. Their plan to frighten him to death with vicious ghosts goes wrong when a kindly ghost family is sent instead.

Ellen Carr leaves England to become housemother at an unusual Austrian school in the late 1930s. There she meets Marek, a mysterious groundsman whose secret work draws them both into the dangers of war.

Aunts Etta, Coral, and Myrtle care for magical sea creatures on a secret island, but they need help. Their plan to borrow children from London becomes a wild rescue story involving mermaids, a kraken, and conscience.

Orphaned Maia is sent from a London school to relatives in the Amazon, hoping for family and adventure. With stern Miss Minton and new friends beside her, she discovers both cruelty and wonder on the river.

Found as a baby in an Alpine church, Annika grows up loved in Vienna but dreams of her real mother. When an aristocratic stranger appears, Annika is pulled toward a glamorous life with hidden dangers.

Madlyn and Rollo spend the summer at crumbling Clawstone Castle, home to a rare herd of white cattle. To save the castle, they recruit ghosts for tours, then face a darker threat to the animals.

As World War II looms, Tally Hamilton is sent to free-spirited Delderton. A dance trip to Bergania turns into a rescue mission when she befriends lonely Prince Karil.

Lady Agatha is taken by yetis in the Himalayas and discovers they are gentle, polite creatures. When tourists threaten their hidden valley, two children and a lorry driver help move the family toward safety.

A hag, a troll, a wizard, and orphan Ivo are sent to slay an ogre and rescue a princess. The mission quickly turns upside down when the monster, and the princess, are not what anyone expected.

Hal Fenton wants one thing his wealthy parents refuse him: a real dog. When they rent him Fleck for a weekend and take him away, Hal and a kennel girl set off to bring Fleck home for good.

Five cautionary tales show what happens to rude, spoiled, or foolish characters who ignore monsters. Giant worms, sea monsters, and the dog-munching Frid deliver strange but fitting lessons.

At a hidden school for ghosts, three Great Hagges try to teach proper haunting while two children beg for help against greedy developers. Based on an idea by Eva Ibbotson, it keeps her friendly-spooky spirit.