#1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot"s middle grade debut -- now in paperback! When nine-year-old Allie Finkle"s parents announce that they are moving her and her brothers from their suburban split-level into an ancient Victorian in town, Allie"s sure her life is over. She"s not at all happy about having to give up her pretty pink wall-to-wall carpeting for creaky floorboards and creepy secret passageways-not to mention leaving her modern, state-of-the-art suburban school for a rundown, old-fashioned school just two blocks from her new house.