Product Description

Carnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy. The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn't the first time she'd been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened. The horrifyingly evil Carmody Braque touched and branded her little brother -- and now Jacko was very ill, getting steadily worse. There was only one way to save him. Laura had to change over: had to release her supernatural powers. And that meant joining forces with the extraordinary and enigmatic Sorenson Carlisle!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75726 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
"Original and unforgettable -- a seamless combination of supernatural thriller and teenage love story." The Guardian "Magical and unforgettable." Mizz "The characters are believable, the dialogue sparkles, detailed descriptions hold our attention! First published in 1984, The Changeover has lost nothing of its power." Inis "Some books just stand head and shoulders above the rest, don't they? The Changeover is one such! It's a passionate, electric read!gets a full five star rating! Don't miss it." The Book Bag

About the Author
Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand and has loved telling stories all her life. She has published well over a hundred titles and won several major prizes and awards, including The Order of New Zealand, for her internationally-acclaimed contribution to children's literature. She has twice won the prestigious Carnegie Medal, (The Haunting, 1982, and The Changeover, 1984). Margaret lives in the South Island of New Zealand, in a house which she partially built herself, overlooking Governor's Bay.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing
Ok, so this book was recommended to me after I enjoyed reading the Twilight series so much. I have to say that I much preferred the Twilight series. I appreciate that I am probably a bit too old for this book (at 26) but I did have really high hopes. The story follows Laura who knows that Sorensen Carlise (a guy at school)is a witch and knows he is trying to look normal. When Laura's little brother, Jacko, gets "stamped" by an evil man, Laura knows that she needs to ask Sorry to help her. I found the story really slow to get going but it does pick up pace. I thought that the scenes of the `changeover' were very in depth and descriptive. I actually didn't bother reading the last chapter as I found that I didn't care what happened. I thought I would really enjoy it but was left disappointed. Maybe because I was comparing it so directly with the Stephenie Mayer series.

A little diamond in the rough
It's one of those books that you pick up for the sake of it. I didn't have very high hopes and the first quarter or so was pretty slow-moving and difficult to get into, but DON'T LET THAT DETER YOU as soon as I got over that mileage the book was brilliant.

It's witty and sparky and very very true- the style of writing, that is. To be quite honest the plot itself wasn't what kept me entertained. It was more of the sub-plots, the bubbling romance and Mahy's superb skills at writing dialogue and interactions.

I would reccomend this book to mostly girls from 12+ kind of age range, but it's tricky putting this into a catergory, I don't really want to because some of the themesare more mature and then again others are more juvenile. Everyone kind find something to love about this though. It's just one of those stories thaqt creep up on you and when you finish, you're like "wow that was really good". I'm only pissed because it's not long enough and I lost my own copy...

Oh and finally I have to thank Margaret Mahy for introducing one of my favourite fictional characters of ALL time, "Sorry"... you'll love him.

great book
I first read this book when I was about 12 years old, I'm now 28 and I still read it about once a year. as a 12 year old I found it captivating, mysterious & exciting, a near mirror image of all of my daydreams of adventure, magic and romance (only with a much better plot).one of those rare books that can make you laugh out loud or want to cry. It has good strong characters that you can identify with & beautifully mixes magic and adventure with normal life in a way that makes it totally believable. I never get tired of reading it again, bringing back all those memories good & bad of being almost a teenager & how my life was then. I've found with most books that on re reading them they lose their magic, once you know the plot they are never quite as good. However the changeover achieves the almost impossible, I still feel all the passion, excitement & fear that I felt when reading it for the first time. And to be honest even after all these years I'm still a little bit in love with Sorry Carlisle.