At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.<p>At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.<p>At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen. . . .<p>But the Wintersmith isn't <i>exactly</i> a boy. He is Winter itself-snow, gales, icicles-all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.<p>Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax.<p><i>Crivens!</i> Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland-whether she wants it or not.<p>It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring-<p>-Spring won't come.
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