The second came on the day Sorrenson “Sorry” Carlisle, the long-lost scion of one of Christchurch’s founding families, arrived at school. Laura received the first of these “warnings” as she calls them years earlier, on the day her father walked out on them. Laura is troubled only by the rare psychic urge, which send her into a panic. Finances are spread thin after her father left the family for another woman, since child support comes erratically and her mother’s job at bookstore doesn’t pay much, but Laura is content with the daily rituals of school, babysitting her brother and late dinners with her mother. Unlike most of her friends, Laura is happy to live a low-key and anonymous life. The Plot: Frumpy 14 year old Laura Chant lives with her single mother and 3 year old brother, Jacko, in the totally boring suburb of Gardendale, near Christchurch, New Zealand. Clearly, Point (Scholastic) is trying to repackage New Zealander Mahy’s coming-of-age-story as a high school romance- however, the actual story is more A Wrinkle in Time than Twilight. Regular readers know that I love the dissonance between a book’s cover art and the actual content. An unforgettable, supernatural romance.He offers her life, death or the supernatural- but the choice she makes must be her own. 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. 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. A brand-new edition of the Carnegie Medal-winning THE CHANGEOVER - written by internationally bestselling author, Margaret Mahy.

The Changeover by Margaret Mahy