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Under The Mountain
Paperback Edition: 2
When Theo and Rachel Matheson head for Auckland to spend a fortnight with their uncle and aunt, they are prepared for the usual entertainments that the city can provide. But their relatives have curious neighbours who seem to take an unusual interest in the red-haired
twins. And once they meet the extraordinary Mr Jones, their holiday begins to take a course of its own. Beneath extinct volcanoes giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep of several thousand years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Time is running out. The Matheson twins, chosen to oppose the monsters, know themselves to be as fallible as any other eleven-year-olds ...This children's classic by award-winning Maurice Gee is now a major motion picture event.
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Featured in the 11 January 2010 New Zealand newsletter.
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Featured in the January 2010 Teen Reads newsletter.
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Pages : 177
Publisher : Puffin Books
Publication date : 2009-12-01
Subjects: Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, NZ Fiction, NZ Children's / Young Adult, NZ General Fiction (Children's / Young Adult)