Unlike the rest of her family, Pearl Wolfbane is neat and tidy and is
delighted to note that everyone else in Primrose Drive the street into which
her unconventional family has just moved is normal, too. She does her best to
keep her room neat and tidy amid the chaos the others are wreaking. When the
Wolbanes neighbours, the Rigid-Smythes, return home to No. 33 a few days
later, Dudley Rigid-Smythe is horrified. Hed hoped to buy No. 34 and turn it
into flats, but thats impossible now that it looks like a film-set of a
second-rate horror movie. The two families are set for a collision course,
especially when it seems that each of the daughters is much better suited to
living in the others house

About the Author
Shortlisted for the 2001 Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize for Raspberries On
the Yangtze, Karen has long enjoyed a reputation as one of our finest writers,
working in non-fiction and fiction, across all age groups. Born in Canada, she
came to live in England at the age of eleven and since then has returned to
Canada and lived in Ireland. She now lives in Herefordshire. Her other titles
for A&C Black include the Rockets series, Crook Catcher, and two books in the
Comix series, Yikes! Its a Yeti! and Aargh! Its an Alien.