Under the Mountain

Maurice Gee

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Puffin
23 November 2009

Children's & Educational; Thrillers (Children's&YA); Science fiction (Children's&YA)

Winner of the Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-loved Book, this thrilling children's novel is an enduring sci-fi classic.

Winner of the Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-loved Book, this thrilling children's novel is an enduring sci-fi classic.

Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years.

Their goal is the destruction of the world.

Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think. They are horrified to discover that they have a strange and awesome destiny. Only the Matheson twins can save the world from the terror of what is under the mountain.

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By: Maurice Gee
Imprint: Puffin
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Edition: 2nd Media tie-in
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 174g
ISBN: 9780143305019
ISBN 10: 0143305018
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 23 November 2009
Recommended Age: From 8 to 12 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , Young adult , Children / Juvenile , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maurice Gee has long been considered one of New Zealand's finest writers. He has written more than thirty books for adults and young adults and has won numerous literary awards, including the UK's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, the New Zealand Fiction Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2003 he received an inaugural New Zealand Icon Award and in 2004 he received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gee's novels include The Plumb Trilogy, Going West, Prowlers, Live Bodies and The Scornful Moon. He has also written a number of much-loved children's novels, including Under the Mountain, The O Trilogy and The Salt Trilogy. Maurice lives in Nelson, in New Zealand's South Island, with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.