- Family life, Fiction, Magic, Stepfathers
When a disagreeable man with two boys marries a widow with three children, family adjustments are complicated by two magic chemistry sets which cause strange things to happen around the house.
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About the book
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Puffin Books, Tandem Library, Macmillan
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780613684552
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- Family life
- Fiction
- Magic
- Stepfathers
- Family problems
- Children's stories
- Juvenile fiction
- When a disagreeable man with two boys marries a widow with three children, family adjustments are complicated by two magic chemistry sets which cause strange things to happen around the house
- Stepfamilies
- Children: Grades 3-4
- Children's fiction
- Family life, fiction
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