Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy is a prolific and award-winning New Zealand author of Young Adult and Children's Literature.

Two of her novels, The Haunting and The Changeover, have won the Carnegie Medal. She has also been awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Works by Margaret Mahy provide examples of:

 * After the End
 * Alien Among Us: Aliens in the Family
 * Circus Brat
 * Hellish Pupils
 * I Just Write the Thing: The entire point of "A Villain's Night Out."
 * Pirate: The Great Piratical Rambustification, The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage
 * A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: The Pirates' Mixed-Up Voyage
 * Stranger in a Strange School: The Blood-and-Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak