The Changeover
Brothers and sisters, fictionJuvenile fictionFictionSupernaturalWitches
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It was a warning. Laura felt it when she looked in the mirror that morning. There had been others: the day her father left home, the day she me Sorensen-the boy with strange silver eyes. But nothing had prepared Laura for the horror of today. And now her little brother, Jacko, was fighting for his life after being sucked dry of his youth by the sinister Carmody Braque. Laura knows there is onl…
About this book
When her little brother seems to become possessed by an evil spirit, fourteen-year-old Laura seeks the help of the strangely compelling older boy at school who she is convinced has supernatural powers.
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Brothers and sisters, fictionJuvenile fictionFictionSupernaturalWitchesLarge type books
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New ZealandChristchurch
About the author
Margaret Mahy
21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012
Margaret Mahy (born in Whakatane, New Zealand) is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. Her books "The Haunting" and "The Changeover" both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. She has written a little less than 50 novels, including the recent "Alchemy" in 2002. Among her children's books, "A Lion in the Meadow", "The Seven Chinese Brothers", and "The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate" are considered national classics.
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