Awards

• Winner of Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book 2004
• Winner of Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book 2004.

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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. Also available as an eBook

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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. Maurice lives in Nelson, in New Zealand's South Island, with his wife Margareta, and has two daughters and a son.

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