Review: I recently read and liked “Conjured” by Sarah Beth Durst, and after putting together our list of favorite holiday reads that included a re-telling of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon,” I discovered the perfect combination of the two with “Ice!” Or…what I thought would be the perfect combination. Before it is over, the world she knows will be swept away, and everything she holds dear will be taken from her - until she discovers the true meaning of love and family in the magical realm of Ice. That is the beginning of Cassie’s own real-life fairy tale, one that sends her on an unbelievable journey across the brutal Arctic, through the Canadian boreal forest, and on the back of the North Wind to the land east of the sun and west of the moon. And he can bring her back - if Cassie will agree to be his bride. He tells her that her mother is alive, imprisoned at the ends of the earth. Then, on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie comes face-to-face with a polar bear who speaks to her. Cassie lives with her father at an Arctic research station, is determined to become a scientist, and has no time for make-believe. Now that Cassie is older, she knows the story was a nice way of saying her mother had died. McElderry Books, October 2009īook Description: When Cassie was a little girl, her grandmother told her a fairy tale about her mother, who made a deal with the Polar Bear King and was swept away to the ends of the earth.
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