Everything you need to understand or teach The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy.
In The Tricksters, seventeen-year-old Harry (Ariadne) Hamilton is the middle child in a family of five; she is at once awkward and romantic. She defines her romanticism in the pages of the novel she is writing—a romance populated by Lady Jessica, Prince Valery, and the dark-winged villain, Belen.
When she and her family visit Carnival's Hide, their vacation home, for Christmas and New Year's, she is astonished to find the secret...