Snow in Summer

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Information & Library Science Library — Juvenile

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J Yolen
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With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking Summer's mama with him, Summer's fairy-tale life turns grim. Things get even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama puts up a pretty face, but Summer suspects she's up to no good - and is afraid she's powerless to stop her.

This Snow White tale filled with magic and intrigue during the early twentieth century in Appalachia will be hard to forget.

Sample chapter

Mirror, mirror on the wall... "Fear the Hunter," the mirror's masked face said, startling me out of my memories. "Fear the Hunter, fear the knife, Fear the edge that takes a life." The mirror spoke as if Hunter was capitalized, like a name or a rank of some kind. "The Hunter? Who's that?" I asked, but the mirror had gone silent. In the silence I heard a car door slam right outside. Stepmama was home. I slipped back out of her room so fast my shadow had trouble keeping up, and I headed down the hallway as if going to the bathroom. That was where she found me. Excerpted from Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All by Jane Yolen All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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