Where would you rather live - in a lonely flat with your drunk father, only bearable when your big brother is home? Or in a small, snowy village with a frozen lake, where your aunt burns books to keep the house warm, and a girl called Pi makes your heart beat a bit too fast, and your cranky old neighbour teaches you to catch fish that look like ice dragons, and a hawk owl watches out for you by night?
Mik has been skating on thin ice his entire life. When he is forced to leave his new home with his aunt Lena, he leaves behind icy northern Sweden and all his new friends, and his life becomes a living nightmare. Through forests and along train lines, over rapids and waterfalls, Mik is determined that nothing will stop him from finding home at last.
ISBN: | 9781908195005 |
Publication date: | 18th March 2011 |
Author: | Mikael Engström, Susan Beard |
Publisher: | Little Island Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 282 pages |
Genres: |
Adventure Stories PSHE: Family Issues Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |