Breadcrums

Welcome back to another great year of reading at Peck Reads!  Over the summer I had a chance to read a lot of great new books, and I am hoping to share some of them here with you this year.  My first book choice is the new novel by Anne Ursu (author of the Cronus Chronicles), Breadcrumbs.  I was a little worried, because the book got off to a rather slow start.  Keep reading! This book is a wonderful mix of adventure and fantasy, with a little fairytale thrown in!  You might even recognize some parts as being inspired by The Snow Queen.  See a complete synopsis of the plot below.  Feel free to offer you thoughts in the comment section below, and check back next month for another great book!

From Booklist - Nov. 2011
Hazel, a fifth-grader who lives with her divorced mother, isn’t adjusting well to her new school. Worse, her one dependable friendship, with her next-door-neighbor Jack, has become unstable. When glass falls from the sky and into Jack’s eye, its source is a mystery, but readers are told that a shard of magic mirror, shattered by a goblin high above the earth, caused the injury. Soon afterward, a white witch lures him to a frozen pond, where he lives while Hazel braves the terrors of the magic woods to rescue him. Mixing realistic and fantastic realms is a chancy endeavor, but Ursu draws readers into lonely Hazel’s world and makes her quest a compelling story.