The Winter Place (41 page)

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Text copyright © 2015 by Alexander Yates

Jacket photographs of girl and forest © 2015 by Irene Lamprakou, Jitka Saniova/Trevillion Images; tree graphics and photograph of boy copyright © 2015 by Shutterstock Images; photograph of bear copyright © 2015 by Thinkstock Images

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Kalevala
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Yates, Alexander.

The winter place / Alexander Yates. — First edition.

pages cm

Summary: Upon their father's death, Tess and her younger brother, Axel, leave New York for their grandparents' home in Finland, where they learn that a bear they both saw is the spirit of their mother, the strange man with her is the keeper of souls, and he wants Axel, already plagued with the disease that killed their mother, to replace him.

ISBN 978-1-4814-1981-9 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4814-1983-3 (eBook)

[1. Supernatural—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Orphans—Fiction. 4. Death—Fiction. 5. Soul—Fiction. 6. Grandparents—Fiction. 7. Finland—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.1.Y38Win 2015

[Fic]—dc23

2014045284