I had known about Sally Ride thanks to the constant Facebook friendslist updates, but didn't find out about Margaret Mahy until very late last night.

The Changeover was tremendously influential on me as a young greenlily, as a writer and a reader and a girl-discovering-boys and a person-considering-becoming-a practicing-neopagan and a teenager-realizing-her-parents-are-human-beings and several other hyphenated things. My copy is packed away with most of my other books until sometime in early September, and now I wish I'd kept it in my Books-Not-To-Be-Packed-Because-I-Might-Need-Them bag instead. :(