Book description
A FANTASTICAL MIDDLE GRADE ADVENTURE FROM DR JESS FRENCH: TV PRESENTER, VET, CREATURE EXPERT AND CHILDREN'S AUTHOR!
"I absolutely loved this book! It's perfect for fans of Skandar and Fireborn, with brilliant world-building, great characterisation, and heaps of peril." - Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear
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Why read it?
1 author picked Race to Frostfall Mountain as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m a sucker for in-depth worldbuilding, and this book really delivers. Jess French cooks up a host of contrasting human cultures and throws them together in an unforgiving wilderness populated with fantastical creatures.
And thanks to her zoological background, the creatures have as much depth as the human characters. I’m already looking forward to the sequel.
From P.G.'s list on middle grade mysteries that visit other worlds.
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