Cold Spell

by Deb Vanasse

With precise and evocative prose, Cold Spell tells the story of a mother who risks everything to start over and a daughter whose longings threaten to undo them both.
From the moment Ruth Sanders rips a glossy photo of a glacier from a magazine, she believes her fate is intertwined with the ice. Her unsettling fascination bewilders her daughter, sixteen-year-old Sylvie, still shaken by her father's leaving. When Ruth uproots Sylvie and her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602232423
• ISBN13: 9781602232426
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Nature and sibiling rivalry combine for a hard to put dow

This book is compelling in its magnetic description of the harshness and beauty of the Alaskan wilderness. It poses tough questions to its intended middle-school audience . Josh is more comfortable with the amenities of the modern world and his half brother Nathan , who favors himself as a modern - day Thoreau , are in constant conflict.Their father seems powerless to resolve his own or their problems . The story has adventure and suspense and is realistic in its portrayal of our all too human emotions.