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This book’s author is a lady named Isobelle Carmody and it was originally published by Penguin Books Australia but the story had a different title and it was Billy Thunder And The Night Gate.

But the title got changed to Night Gate because of an arrangement made with Random House Books For Young Readers, and Yearling is a registered trademark of Random House Inc. Also the ISBN numbers for Night Gate is ISBN-13: 978-0-375-83017-4 and ISBN-10: 0-375-83017-0

And in this story a teenage girl called Rage Winnoway is being looked after by her neighbours next door as her mother is in a dangerous coma which was caused by a car accident. Rage also decides to visit her mum so she goes away or runs away taking her dogs with her. But as she gets nearer to the hospital she wonders what she’ll do with her dogs who are her best friends and then shortly after she found out that they were being followed by a goat.

They then came across a bramble gate, and Rage thought she was being tricked as she heard a voice that called itself Firecat and it told her to come through the bramble gate as it promised that the wizard could help her mother come out of her coma but even though she didn’t really believe what Firecat said she did what it suggested and her animals friends followed. 

Then as she was thinking about them being human all of them changed form and they can talk too, though some of them like Bear who is Billy Thunder’s mother resisted the change.

Also to get back to their own world they had to complete the quest to find the wizard that was said could help them but it wasn’t easy as they had to figure out what the riddle meant which was their only clue and though the world they discovered was full of beings to avoid Rage and her friends also found that there was good beings there too. As one of the things that happens is that The Witch Mother and others who attended a meeting helped Rage and her friends find a safe way to go down The River Of No Return.