I'd like to be able to step from one boring, mundane world into another world where witches invite me over their threshold and tempt me to eat their bread and salt so that I will come back again another time. Laura knows there is only one way to save Jacko she must join Sorensen and use his supernatural powers to change over if there is to be any hope for her little brother. The Changeover by Margaret Mahy (1984) I 'd like to be able to change over, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, like Laura Chant. And now her little brother, Jacko, was fighting for his life after being sucked dry of his youth by the sinister Carmody Braque. But nothing had prepared Laura for the horror of today. There had been others: the day her father left home, the day she met Sorensen - the boy with the strange silver eyes. Laura felt it when she looked in the mirror that morning. It was the hand of terror, nothing less.' It was a warning. I more than loved it' Laini Taylor - author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone 'A clammy hand pressed Laura down onto her knees beside Jacko's bed.

'A gorgeous, strange, unforgettable story. With Stephen King power and Mahy's own class and polish.' Kirkus Review Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE CHANGEOVER - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy. *** 'It is rare to find a novel which captures so well the changeover from child to adult, and from what is real in the mind to what is real outside.' The Times Literary Supplement 'The best supernatural young adult fiction around. I more than loved it.' - Laini Taylor, author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone Now a major motion picture staring Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynskey and Lucy Lawless. Carnegie Award Winning Novel! 'A gorgeous, strange, unforgettable story. Laura knows there is only one way to save Jacko she must join Sorensen and use his supernatural powers to change over if there is to be any hope for her little brother. 'A clammy hand pressed Laura down to her knees beside Jacko's bed.