Margaret Mahy

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Margaret Mahy


Born
in Whakatane, New Zealand
March 21, 1936

Died
July 23, 2012

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Margaret Mahy was 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: A Supernatural Romance both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. There have 100 children's books, 40 novels, and 20 collections of her stories published. Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics. Her novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and A
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Average rating: 3.89 · 25,610 ratings · 3,049 reviews · 398 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Changeover

4.06 avg rating — 4,176 ratings — published 1984 — 57 editions
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The Seven Chinese Brothers

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4.19 avg rating — 1,839 ratings — published 1990 — 20 editions
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The Haunting

3.79 avg rating — 1,273 ratings — published 1982 — 48 editions
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Bubble Trouble

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3.97 avg rating — 838 ratings — published 1992 — 24 editions
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The Tricksters

3.98 avg rating — 835 ratings — published 1986 — 20 editions
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Maddigan's Fantasia

3.66 avg rating — 690 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions
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A Lion in the Meadow

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4.13 avg rating — 575 ratings — published 1969 — 26 editions
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Catalogue of the Universe

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3.81 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 1985 — 27 editions
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Alchemy

3.38 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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El secuestro de la bibliote...

3.95 avg rating — 369 ratings — published 1976 — 15 editions
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“It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.”
Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

“Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it.”
Margaret Mahy

“There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?”
Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

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