WINTERSMITH.

by Terry Pratchett.

Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters. –Independent on Sunday.

OVERVIEW: At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.

At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.

At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when youre thirteen. . . .

But the Wintersmith isnt exactly a boy. He is Winter itself—snow, gales, icicles—all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.

Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. Shell also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax. They— Crivens! Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! Shell have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland—whether she wants it or not.

Its going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesnt survive until Spring—

—Spring wont come.

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2006 Harper hard cover, 336 pages. New. List Price $18.00