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Language English Media type Print ISBN 0-460-06097-X Originally published August 1982 Genre Ghost story Country New Zealand | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date August 1982 Pages 135 pp (first edition) OCLC 476531256 Publisher J. M. Dent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Haunting is a low fantasy novel for children written by Margaret Mahy of New Zealand and published in 1982, including a U.K. edition by J. M. Dent. Atheneum published the first U.S. edition in 1983.
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Mahy won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.
The Haunting of Barney Palmer, a New Zealand movie based on the book, was released in 1987.
Plot introduction
Barney Palmer, a shy eight-year-old boy, discovers that one person in each generation of his family has had supernatural gifts – and this generation it seems to be him. He believes he is haunted by the ghost of an uncle he never met, and is oppressed by his fate. However, his sister Tabitha is determined to help him.
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