Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones. Earwig was left on the orphanage's doorstep when she was a baby. She likes it it there and never wants to leave. Earwig is an unusual little girl who has a way of making everyone do exactly likes she wants at the orphange and her best friend Custard is there, so she makes sure that no one ever picks her for adoption. When a very strange couple comes to the orphange and chooses Earwig out from all the other children she is in for an unpleasant surprise. For the first time in her life Earwig can't control what is happeneing to her because the couple turn out to be a witch and a demon, but they might be in for a surprise, too, when Earwig makes friends with the witch's cat. A funny, magical fun read for grades 3rd and up.
by Judy Griggs
