Under the Mountain - Hardcover

Gee, Maurice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195580400 ISBN 13: 9780195580402

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1979

Synopsis

While vacationing with relatives in Auckland, twins Theo and Rachel discover that they are endowed with special powers to oppose mysterious giant creatures that are determined to destroy the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's best-known writers, for both adults and children. He has won a number of literary awards, including the Wattie Award, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the New Zealand Fiction Award. He has also won 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 an 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 children's novels, the most recent being Salt and Gool. Maurice lives in Nelson with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0195580400
• ISBN 13: 9780195580402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 164