Re: [LM_NET] SHARE: The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo

[Suzanne Ng <suzanne@WHATEXIT.COM>]

FWIW, Scholastic's February Arrow ( Book Club flyer) is offering the  
hardcover book plus the 3 CD audiobook for $14.95... I've already  
placed MY order!

Suzanne

On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:12 PM, Ronda Y. Foust wrote:

> 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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Suzanne Ng, Librarian
South Mountain Elem. School
South Orange, NJ 07079
email: sng@somsd.k12.nj.us
http://www.southmountain.somsd.k12.nj.us
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