"Ice" by Sarah Beth DurstPublished: September 14, 2009
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Genres: Young Adult, Retelling, Romance
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Source: MeLCat
Read January 31 to February 2, 2015
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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. Now that Cassie is older, she knows the story was a nice
way of saying her mother had died. Cassie lives with her father at an Arctic
research station, is determined to become a scientist, and has no time for
make-believe.
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie comes face-to-face with a polar bear who speaks to her. He tells her that her mother is alive, imprisoned at the ends of the earth. And he can bring her back — if Cassie will agree to be his bride. 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. 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. |
