Tom Williams

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.