New member Emily helps the Magic Misfits when a ventriloquist with a dastardly plan comes to town.

In Night of the living dummy II: Amy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, keeps losing his head. So Amy begs her family for a new dummy. That's when her dad finds Slappy the dummy in a local pawnshop. Then horrible, nasty things start happening because there's something odd about Slappy. In Bride of the living dummy: Slappy the dummy is back with an evil scheme that involves a cute young "doll" he sees in the audience at one of his shows.

The Wild Iris was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1991. Louise Cluck's first four collections consistently returned to the natural world, to the classical and biblical narratives that arose to explain the phenomena of this world, to provide meaning and to console. Ararat, her fifth book, offered a substitution for the received: a demotic, particularized myth of contemporary family. Now in The Wild Iris, her most important and accomplished...