WINTERSMITH

At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, shebattled an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a newchallenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen.. . . But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is Winteritself—snow, gales, icicles—all of it. When he has a crush onTiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards andavalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world.Forever. Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'llalso need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary GrannyWeatherwax. They— Crivens! Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too!She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever tobe banished from Fairyland—whether she wants it or not. It's goingto be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive untilSpring— —Spring won't come.