The winter place
By: Alexander Yates
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers; Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781481419819; 9781481419826; 9781481419833
Subjects: Death; Brothers and sisters; Grandparents; Juvenile fiction; Soul; Fiction; Supernatural; Siblings; Orphans
Description: 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.
Notes: Ages 14 up.