Background
McHargue was born in New York City.
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Janie uses her power to put life in the stone animals that ornament New York buildings to escape her parents' quarreling, but when the animals start to turn her into stone she learns that having feelings is the price of remaining human.
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When she inadvertently befriends eccentric Aunt Aggie, who keeps cats and is passionate about their welfare, shy, thirteen-year-old Johanna learns a great deal about the difficulties of old age and of maintaining a friendship with a stubborn and opinionated old lady.
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Ben's efforts to apprehend the vandal plaguing the natural history museum are complicated by a "witch" and a strange animal who seem to be haunting the museum.
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McHargue was born in New York City.
After working at Golden Press, she became an editor at Doubleday. She had a long career working as an author, she published 35 books including many children"s fiction books and nonfiction works on archaeology, history, mythology and paranormal. She also wrote on folklore and occult topics.
McHargue moved to Groton, Massachusetts.
The book exposed fraudulent mediums and was described in a review as a "well researched and intriguing case study in human gullibility.".
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