This is a story readers will love again and again!' -Jennifer A. I was captivated from the first word to the last. Valor is an engaging heroine who never loses courage, even when everything goes wrong. ' Prisoner of Ice and Snow is an exciting, fast-paced story, full of twists and turns. This exciting middle-grade debut effortlessly melds an unforgettable protagonist, a breathless plot, and stunning world-building-and is impossible to put down.

And if the plan fails, she and Sasha could end up with fates worse than prison.

If Valor's plan is to succeed, she'll need to make some unlikely allies. But she didn't count on having to outsmart both the guards and her fellow prisoners. Valor has a master plan and resources most people could only dream about. Never mind that no one has escaped the prison in centuries. Valor's twin sister, Sasha, is serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. When thirteen-year-old Valor is sent to jail, she couldn't be happier. I received this ebook free from Net Galley and publisher Bloomsbury.She'll do anything to break her sister out of prison-even get arrested on purpose. I recommend this story and I am looking forward to the second book in the series. I admire how the writer Ruth Lauren illustrates the dangers in the story by examples of extreme heat and cold, from scalding hot water in a kitchen to becoming perilously cold in a cell of ice. This book is really good in its treatment of friendship, trust and loyalty and how these elements drive Valor to persevere and not give up.

Who can Valor trust to help in her quest? Sasha has been sentenced to a harsh children's gaol that nobody has escaped from in 300 years but Valor is determined to join her sister and break them out of prison. Valor cannot rest until and unless she saves her twin sister Sasha, who has been found guilty of stealing a valuable music box that was to seal the treaty of alliance between Demidova and neighbouring country Magadanskya. This is a highly enjoyable children's adventure with classic ingredients: fictional countries and royal families palace, prison, and dungeon and themes of loyalty and betrayal.

The prisoner of ice and snow