![]() ![]() One day a mysterious stranger, accompanied by a group of boys, turns up asking for food and talking about treasure. ![]() They have a brother named Oskar their mother died in childbirth and their father abandoned them shortly afterwards. Mila is the middle of three sisters who live in the great forest of Eldbjørn in a house with windows made from ice. Told in vivid, often lyrical language, The Way Past Winter portrays a richly imagined world that is rooted in myth, magic and folk tales, while appealing to modern sensibilities and concerns. This is Hargrave’s third novel for eight- to 12-year-olds and like her award-winning debut, The Girl of Ink & Stars, it features a girl on a quest who will not easily give in. A winter that came and never left.” So begins Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s ode to the frozen north, to sibling love and to the lure of adventure. ![]() A winter that arrived so sudden and sharp it stuck birds to branches, and caught the rivers in such a frost their spray froze. “I t was a winter they would tell tales about. ![]()
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