There is nothing like a hearty brogue to drop a listener into a faraway land, in this case Wales in olden times. She displays a mastery of family nuancesthe little rituals that can keep a family whole or tear it apart if those same gestures are ignored or forgotten. Nimmo’s story, set in the Welsh countryside, contains elements of SF and fantasy, but it’s firmly grounded in very real themes of blame and responsibility. And Gwyn, with the overeagerness of an apprentice, unleashes the darker side of his magic. A girl, in fact, arrives in the village, so similar in her ways to Bethan that her presence acts as a salve on the family’s wounds. If he is, he wants to use his powers to get Bethan back. Now he is 10, still blamed by his father for Bethan’s disappearance, and wonders if his grandmother’s hints that he is a magician could possibly be true. One night, Gwyn asked his sister Bethan to go up the mountain and rescue his ewe she was never seen again. Will he be able to use this special spider to bring his missing sister, Bethan, home? THE SNOW SPIDER spins an icy, sparkly web of mystical intrigue that sets the stage for the next two books in this outstanding trilogy! One blustery day, unsure what to do with his newfound magic, Gwyn throws the brooch to the wind and receives a silvery snow spider in return. She gives him five gifts to help him–a brooch, a piece of dried seaweed, a tin whistle, a scarf, and a broken toy horse. On Gwyn’s 9th birthday, his grandmother tells him he may be a magician, like his Welsh ancestors.
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