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Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand children's author. Mahy was influential in changing the landscape of children's literature in her homeland and was one of the most prolific authors, penning more than 120 titles. Her output included poetry, picture books and works for older children, teenage novels, television scripts and stories for magazines and newspapers. Margaret began writing children's books in earnest at the age of eighteen, while training to be a children's librarian in Christchurch. Her big break came fifteen years later when an American publisher came across A Lion in the Meadow and bought it, along with all the other work Margaret had produced over the years. Margaret became a full-time writer in 1980 and wrote The Haunting, which was the first novel outside the United Kingdom to win the Carnegie Medal. She triumphed again two years later with The Changeover. In 2006 Margaret was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international honour given to an author and an illustrator of children's books, in recognition of a lasting contribution to children's literature. Margaret Mahy passed away in July 2012.

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Title:: The Haunting
Written by:: Margaret Mahy
Read by:: Richard Mitchley
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 3
Duration:: 3 hours 14 minutes
Published:: March 28 2017
Available Date:: March 28 2017
Age Category:: Children (8+)
ISBN:: 9781489387073
Genres:: Fiction; Children's Fiction; Horror
Publisher:: Bolinda/Audible audio

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'Mahy projects the haunting with such imaginative force and seriousness that you'll hear those footsteps and that husky voice as Barney does.'
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A shy and rather withdrawn eight-year-old begins receiving frightening supernatural images and messages ...

Eight-year-old Barney is willing to accept that the ghost of his Great-Uncle Cole might wish to be friends with him, but his family are sceptical. However, some of his older relations admit that there does seem to be something special about the boy. Barney's sister, practical Tabitha, determines to solve the mystery – but it is Troy, the oldest of the children, who finds out what the truth really is ...