Margaret Mahy

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.

A Supernatural Romance

The Changeover

A powerful first novel from this award-winning author. Barney's sister and brother set out to discover the reason behind his supernatural attraction. Their search leads to a strengthening of family relationships and individual identities. Winner of the Carnegie Medal. Age 8+ 144 pages

The Haunting

In a world made uncertain by "the Chaos," two time-traveling boys, fifteen-year-old Timon and eleven-year-old Eden, seek to protect a magic talisman, aided by twelve-year-old Garland, a member of a traveling circus known as Maddigan's Fantasia.

Maddigan's Fantasia

La figlia della luna

While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again.

The Tricksters

Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities.

The Seven Chinese Brothers

Forced from home, twelve-year old Heriot's unwilling steps lead him to Diamond, first city of the Hoadara. Forced to serve as the King's magician, Heriot is isolated within the walls of Diamond, until he finds Cayley, a wild, ambiguous rat-of-the-city. Two lonely souls forge an unlikely friendship in the shadows of the city both are forced to call home. But when children become adults, childish games become deadly serious and when incipient madness erupts in chilling violence, Heriot is forced to explore the very heart of his magic. Suggested level: secondary.

The Magician of Hoad

Jake Raven, expecting to dislike her new stepsister and stepbrother, ends up helping them protect an alien from another dimension as he flees from mysterious pursuers with the ability to alter time.

Aliens in the Family

Captain Wafer and the crew of the Sinful Sausage set sail for the Thousand Islands with a plot to kidnap a famous inventor, only to be thwarted by a witch, a firedrake, and the dastardly Dr. Silkweed.

The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage

Wendy Smith

Delphinium spends her tenth birthday aboard a traveling space circus, fighting against the dark forces who are bent on stamping out fun.

The Greatest Show Off Earth

The Boy With Two Shadows

The Tricksters (Collins Flamingo)

Before Sally's Nana can finish filling in the faces on a row of paper dolls which she has cut out, the five sisters are whisked off on a series of extraordinary adventures.

The Five Sisters

A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad's lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.

Down the Back of the Chair

Helene Bützow

Tähtien tytär

I don't know if the world counts as the world any more, not since the wars of the Destruction ...we're the leftover people going between the leftover places. In a time not far from our own, a colourful group of travellers brave the twisting, tricksy landscape of the Remaking, after Chaos ripped the world apart. They are the magicians, clowns, trapeze artists and musicians of Maddigan's Fantasia, healing the injured land with their gifts of wonder and laughter. Garland Maddigan, the 12-year-old daughter of Ferdy, the Fantasia's ringmaster, has made the trip before, but this journey offers frightening new challenges. Three mysterious children join the Fantasia and the sinister strangers who follow them become a dangerous enigma as Garland slowly unlocks their secret origin. Margaret Mahy is one of the world's best-loved authors, writing wonderfully funny children's stories and ground-breaking novels for young adults, thrilling millions of readers. Margaret is a member of the Order of New Zealand, an honorary doctor of letters and twice winner of Britain's Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature. Playing with time is a dangerous game ...would you dare?

Maddigan's Quest

Mabel blows a bubble that captures Baby and wafts him away, resulting in a wild chase that involves the whole neighborhood.

Bubble Trouble

Mr. Whistler, an absent-minded man, loses his train ticket and earns money when people mistake his searching for dancing.

Mister Whistler

David and his mother outsmart the witch that comes to sample their freshly baked cakes.

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