Twelve-year-old Ellen Theodora Madigan doesn't want to be a psychic. However, when her family moves to Cuma, Italy and lands her at the site of one of the renowned ancient oracles - the Cumaean Sibyl, she no longer has a choice. Her supernatural gift brings on strange dreams and the feeling that an old mystery on the Cuma hillside needs to be solved. Ellen's curiosity is heightened by a series of disturbing events that all seem to be connected to a pet collar she obtains from a local farmer. While coming to terms with her paranormal gift, she is confronted with cryptic messages, attempted...

When fourteen-year-old Ellen Theodora Madigan's dad moves the family to Munich, Germany for his job, her paranormal sensitivity goes into high alert. Almost at once, she senses that something may have happened in the basement of Haus Falke, the home they have rented. When the boy next door tells her that two medical students died during a WWII Allied bombing attack there, something feels "off." Ellen's intuition fueled by perceptive dreams, the remnants of an old diary and an odd photo in an antique locket leads the two teenagers to delve deeper. Together, they uncover a trail that leads to a...

This is a multicultural children's picture book about friendship. It teaches that good manners, kindness and a ready smile are more important than where you come from or how you look.