The Ogre Downstairs

Diana Wynne Jones First published 1974

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • children: grades 3-4
  • children's fiction
  • children's stories
  • family life
  • family life, fiction
  • family problems
  • fantasy fiction
  • fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • magic
  • magic, fiction
  • stepfamilies
  • stepfamilies, fiction
  • stepfathers
  • when a disagreeable man with two boys marries a widow with three children, family adjustments are co