Northwards - Society of Medical Writers and Borders Writers' Forum) Eade - Bog

A Texan schoolgirl's feet will only point north... towards the Arctic. Earth Mother requires her help to save the world from a terror lying deep inside the Mountains of Sorrow. Something to do with a mysterious chamber of ice. And something to do with her Granny who lies ill in hospital. But feisty Jenny soon makes friends with the annoying spherical Snowball people, with hairy little mountain folk and with a small snow cat; friends that she and a Japanese boy she meets up with are going to need big time... An eco-fantasy for young readers set in North America.