![]() Now, to be completely honest, I read The Changeover, liked it, appreciate its merits as well as the love readers have for it, but I wasn’t completely awed by it. Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover is a book that is constantly recommended and cited as influential in the YA circles I frequent. Are the Tricksters her own creation? Or are they aspects of Teddy Carnival, a boy who drowned there years before? When three fascinating but sinister brothers mysteriously appear at her family’s beach house, Harry feels as if she summoned them herself. Publication date: First published in 1986 This week, Ana tackles a YA novel, The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy. What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? ![]() ![]() ![]() We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. ![]()
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