by Margaret Mahy · Puffin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140372953
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«The Changeover» is Margaret Mahy's fantasy and supernatural romance novel, published by Puffin in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Laura Chant, a fourteen-year-old teenager, senses a disaster. The sinister Carmody Braque marks her brother Jacko, who begins to waste away. To save him, Laura must «change» and awaken her supernatural powers alongside the enigmatic Sorenson Carlisle. Terror, romance, and the transition to adulthood mix in this story.
Winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1984. The first edition was published by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1984; this Puffin Books edition is from 1995.
Target audience: young and teenage readers looking for fantasy stories with romance.
Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".
