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Was Worm a witch's cat? Did a witch control him, or maybe even a devil? Was Mrs. Fortune, the strange old lady downstairs, responsible for the awful things Worm did? Or was it someone else, someone Jessica didn't even know? Jessica was determined to find out. She had to know because of the terrible things Worm was making her do.
Jessica had no one but Worm she could count on. Brandon, who had once been her friend, now spent his time with boys and with his trumpet. Joy, Jessica's mother, worked, and in the evenings went out with her new boy friend Allan. Even the two girls Jessica had come to know the year before had disappeared as friends. She had filled her time reading books about witches and witchcraft until the day Worm had come along as an ugly, helpless, newborn kitten. She had cared for him against her will. And now he was making her do dreadful things to other people. Worst of all, too often she was caught doing them, and her actions were becoming harder and harder to explain.Finding out what made Worm the cat he was, was indeed the answer to Jessica's problems. But it was not the answer she expected or wanted.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born in California and has spent all but brief periods of her life there. She and her husband and three children now live in a house near Santa Rosa, California. She has, however, lived far closer to San Francisco in the past, and knows well the neighborhood in which this story is set.
—from the dust jacket
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