This story is two stories in one. While brothers Johnny
and Tom are in the snowy wilderness of Lapland on a husky sledging holiday with
their mother, Sandra, their half sister, Grainne, is at home battling her own
demons. Her relationship with her stepmother is strained, she is having issues
with her father and her real mother is flying back from New York to see her for
the first time in thirteen years.
The boys become
acquainted with sled dogs and head off into the wilderness on an exciting dog
sled ride to a remote lodge. Here they are involved in a ski rescue which is
both believable and dramatic. In alternate chapters we hear the story of a nervous Grainne awaiting the arrival of her
birth mother.
Young readers will be drawn into this exciting book
and will relate to the realistic characters and their emotions as the author uses
sparse, simple language which manages to keep the tension high and the
storyline moving.
Glenn @ Camberwell
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