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Description
At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she banished an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: 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 Winter itself—snow, gales, icicles—all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.
Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax. They—Crivens! Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men, too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pixies ever to be banished from Fairyland—whether she wants it or not. It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring—Spring won't come.
The God of Winter has fallen in love with 13-year-old apprentice witch Tiffany Aching. She enlists the support of the Wee Free Men--her toughest, craziest, and smallest friends--to bend the rules of the rites of spring and protect her world from being eternally frozen. In this energetic mix of boisterous fantasy, wonderful humor, and uncommon common sense, longtime Discworld series narrator Stephen Briggs gives a virtuoso performance, delivering every line and every character voice with just the right glee, tension, and clarity. Briggs saves his best efforts for the wee Scottish-accented "Pictsies," who are laugh-out-loud funny and endearing all at once. Tiffany Aching insists that witches don't believe in magic, but certainly Briggs and Pratchett must. Terry Pratchett's third Tiffany Aching novel is highly recommended. B.P. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
