Carol Jordan Stewart

Two fifth-grade girls, one of whom is the first black child in a middle-income suburb, play at being apprentice witches.

Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.