Mahy, Margaret

The tricksters by Margaret Mahy( Book )

45 editions published between 1985 and 2002 in 6 languages and held by 1,473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests and hangers-on find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating but rather sinister brothers and by New Year nothing is the same again

Underrunners by Margaret Mahy( Book )

19 editions published between 1992 and 1995 in 4 languages and held by 1,415 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tris' imaginary world is invaded by real danger when he and his new friend Winola are kidnapped by Winola's estranged father. The underrunners, a network of tunnels beneath the tussock, provide no security against reality. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary

A summery Saturday morning by Margaret Mahy( Book )

27 editions published between 1998 and 2015 in English and held by 1,399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The children go down to the sea on a summery, Saturday morning, down the wiggly track, scattering shells and leaping logs. But first their dogs chase a cat, then they chase a boy on a rattly bike, then wild geese hiss and chase the children and the dogs and the walk is not so peacful after all. Suggested level: junior, primary

Down the back of the chair by Margaret Mahy( Book )

13 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and Spanish and held by 1,363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When Dad loses his car keys, two-year-old Mary suggests they might be down the back of the chair. Dad begins the search, finding everything from a bandicoot to a bumblebee, as well as the solution to all the family's problems! Suggested level: junior

The blood-and-thunder adventure on Hurricane Peak by Margaret Mahy( Book )

33 editions published between 1989 and 2002 in 10 languages and held by 1,214 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Relates the tangled events that lead the students of the Unexpected School on Hurricane Peak to foil the wicked Sir Quincey and his accomplices and to solve several mysteries

The great piratical rumbustification ; & the librarian and the robbers by Margaret Mahy( Book )

58 editions published between 1978 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 1,150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the first story a pirate has reformed and become a respectable babysitter--or has he? In the second, A band of wicked robbers carry of a beautiful librarian

Simply delicious! by Margaret Mahy( Book )

6 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 1,131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A resourceful father engages in all kinds of acrobatic moves to keep an assortment of jungle creatures from getting the double-dip-chocolate-chip-and-cherry ice cream cone he is taking home to his son

The three-legged cat by Margaret Mahy( Book )

20 editions published between 1993 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mistaken identity means all their dreams come true when Mrs. Gimble's roving brother pays her and her three-legged cat his annual visit. Suggested level: preschool, junior

Boom, baby, boom, boom! by Margaret Mahy( Book )

16 editions published between 1996 and 2015 in English and held by 1,052 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

It's time for lunch. Leaving the baby to feed herself, Mum starts playing the drums, boom-boom-boom. But the animals are listening at the window are hungry, hungry, hungry... In creeps the cat, followed by the dog, the red rooster and his hens, the sheep and the cow. When Mum stops playing she is happy to see that baby has eaten every bit and bite of her lunch. Or has she? Suggested level: junior

Dangerous spaces by Margaret Mahy( Book )

29 editions published between 1991 and 2009 in 7 languages and held by 1,003 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Anthea is drawn into a ghostly nightmare when she finds some objects belonging to her great-uncle Henry