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For the first time, Ruth is heading to Newfoundland instead of spending the summer traveling with her dad. When she arrives, she finds Newfoundland is different from her life in Toronto--people there are more friendly, but also superstitious. Ruth's cousin Ruby is also staying for the summer, and the two discover they have a lot in common. But while Ruby believes in spirits and fairies, Ruth believes in science and cold, hard facts. When they find...
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Evie loves healing people, and her medical work takes up so much time she never thinks about marrying anyone--so when Wormy, her friend and often test subject, suddenly proposes to her, Evie turns him down, not being in love with him in that way. Lucinda, though, doesn't approve of her rejection, and curses Evie to be a hideous ogre. If she does not find another suitor within sixty-two days she will be stuck as an ogre forever.