[LM_NET] SHARE: The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo

["Ronda Y. Foust" <rfoust150@COMCAST.NET>]

Many, many years ago, I read Susan Cooper's <i>Dark is Rising</i>.   
The series enthralled me, and I found myself anxiously waiting for  
each book in the series to come back in to our school library (the  
series was popular).  So how is this relevant to Jenny Nimmo's <i>The  
Magician Trilogy</i>? Reading <u>The Snow Spider</u> put me in the  
same frame of mind that Cooper's series put me into so very many  
years ago, so much so, that I (1) can't wait to read the 2nd book in  
Nimmo's series and (2) am itching to re-read Cooper's series.  Set in  
Wales, Nimmo's new series (she is author of the <i>Charlie Bone</i>  
books), introduces us to Gwyn and his family on the day of Gwyn's  
ninth birthday.  Gwyn's grandmother gives him five very puzzling  
gifts--a piece of seaweed, a scarf, a whistle, a twisted brooch and a  
broken toy horse--and tells hiim that now is the time to find out if  
he, Gwyn, is a magician.  Gwyn and his mother and father, still  
grieving from the mysterious disappearance of his sister Bethan  
almost five years previous, pretty well think that Gwyn's gran is  
nuts.  But is she?  Full of the richness of Welsh names <u>The Snow  
Spider</u> is an intriguing tale of darkness, mystery, and the light  
of hope.  I'm looking forward to reading the next one.

Reading level as listed on Amazon.com:  Ages 9-12



Ronda Y. Foust
School Media Specialist in Training, UTK
rstansb2@utk.edu
Oak Ridge, TN
http://thebookdragon.blogspot.com/



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