Breadcrumbs

Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they were eleven, it was weird for a boy and a girl to be best friends. But they couldn’t help it – Hazel and Jack fit, in that way you only read about in book. And they didn’t fit anywhere else. And then, one day, Jack just stopped talking to Hazel. Jack’s heart had been frozen, and a woman dressed in white took him into the woods to live in a palace made of ice. Now it’s up to Hazel to venture into the woods after him. B&W illus. 312p. (Ages: 8 & up).