Margaret Meacham is the author of "A Mid-Semester Night's Dream", a companion title to this one. "School Library Journal" observed, "The characters are warm and genuine and readers who are not quite ready for Ann Brashares's "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" will enjoy this glimse of one girl's encounters with magic, mayhem and growing up." She lives in Maryland. To find out more, you can visit her website at www.margaretmeacham.com.Terence Dukes, whose Buddhist name wasnbsp;Nagaboshi Tomio, was born in London in 1946.