The Changeover

The Changeover
First edition
AuthorMargaret Mahy
Cover artistBruce Hogarth (depicted)[1]
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult fantasy, supernatural fiction
PublisherJ. M. Dent & Sons
Publication date
1 May 1984
Publication placeNew Zealand
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages214 pp (first edition)
ISBN0-460-06153-4
OCLC12449148
LC ClassPZ7.M2773 Ch 1984[2]

The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance is a low fantasy novel for young adults by Margaret Mahy, published in 1984 by J. M. Dent in the U.K. It is set in Christchurch in the author's native New Zealand.

Mahy and The Changeover won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.[3] Thus she became the fourth writer with two such honours (of seven through 2012), having won the 1982 Medal for The Haunting.[4]

Atheneum Books published a U.S. edition within the year.[1][2]

WorldCat reports that The Changeover is Mahy's novel most widely held in participating libraries, second among all her works behind a picture book collaboration, The Seven Chinese Brothers (1989).[5]

  1. ^ a b The Changeover title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 2012-09-10
  2. ^ a b "The changeover: a supernatural romance" (first U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-09-10.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference medal1984 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference medal1982 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Mahy, Margaret". WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-09-10.