A dazzling fantasy adventure set in a parallel world beneath the Arctic ice. Award-winning author Rebecca Stead's debut, now published in the UK for the first time.
A dazzling fantasy adventure set in a parallel world beneath the Arctic ice.
Rebecca Stead grew up in New York City where she lives today with her husband and two sons. Rebecca used to be a lawyer and wrote books for adults before turning to younger fiction. Her second book for children, When You Reach Me, won the Newbery Medal 2010, and her follow-up, Liar and Spy, was the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. She now combines her writing with work as a literary agent
"Intriguing, credible and absorbing"
*Publishers Weekly*
"An absolutely gripping story of a hidden world . . . I couldn’t
put it down"
*Tamora Pierce*
"Compelling . . . [a] thoroughly enjoyable Arctic adventure"
*Kirkus*
"Vividly realized . . . fresh and believable"
*The Horn Book Magazine*
"[An] engrossing yarn - a mix of science, suspense and
adventure"
*The New York Post*
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