Margaret Mahy

Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities. With humor and wit, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Mahy captures the courageous adventures of seven brothers who use their supernatural gifts to overpower a cruel emperor. This ALA Notable Book features beautifully executed illustrations full of historical.

Though their Saturday morning walk is not as peaceful as planned, a group of children and their dogs, with one brave adult, enjoy themselves.

Seventeen kings and forty-two elephants romp with a variety of jungle animals during their journey through a wild, wet night.

During his first twenty-four hours after finishing high school, seventeen-year-old Ellis unexpectedly becomes part of an inner-city world far different from his comfortable life, which helps him deal with his best friend's recent suicide.

The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mount Fogg and have an exciting adventure.

Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.

A bossy and demanding plant insists on going home with Mr. Parkin, who usually only tends quiet pumpkins, and from that moment his peaceful existence is changed.

Children's author Margaret Mahy describes her home in New Zealand, her life as a writer, and the way she writes.

As the only Bancroft in a family of Fortunes, Lolly has always felt left out of her Fortune cousins' exclusive gang but when her parents separate Lolly discovers a new inner strength and aspects of kinship that go beyond names.

On the way in his little red car to share a big pot of stew with his friend, Mr. Winkle is unaware of the long procession forming behind him.