Böcker av Margi Preus

From Newbery Honor¿winner Margi Preus, a gripping middle-grade fantasy about a girl who must save the children of her world from being ¿windswept" In Tag¿s world, children are disappearing. ¿Youngers¿ who venture Outside are windswept¿vanishing in the swirling snow¿Tag¿s sisters among them. Many have tried to find the lost children; all have failed. And since the Other Times, the Powers That Be seem intent on keeping it that way.Little remains from those times: snippets of songs, heaps of plastic trash, and a few banned texts¿including a book of fairytales.An unlikely crew of Youngers join forces¿Boots, who can climb anything, Ant, who will eat anything, Ren, who will say anything, and Tag, who doesn¿t appear to have any talent whatsoever. With their dubious skills, the fairytales, a possibly magic ribbon, and an unwillingness to accept ¿that¿s impossible,¿ they set off to rescue their windswept siblings in this spellbinding fantasy from Newbery Honor winner Margi Preus.

One ominous clue after another reveal that Francie possesses something so rare and so valuable that some people are willing to do anything to get it. Everything depends on the small, engraved silver box that she now possesses-if only she can follow its cryptic clues to the whereabouts of her missing mother and understand, finally, just maybe, the truth about who she really is.

In this follow-up to Enchantment Lake, Francie contends with a new school with new friends (and a few enemies), a lead role in a play, an encounter with a giant muskie, archaeological twists, secret tunnels, thin ice, and a strangely sticky murder. 5 1/2 x 8.

Francie, seventeen, leaves summer school and auditions in New York City for Enchantment Lake in the woods of northern Minnesota when her great-aunts call and ask for her help investigating a mystery that centers on a road no one wants built, and on the legendary treasure said to be under enchantment.