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  To all my dear families, especially my vegetarian children, my husband, and my mom and dad.

  About the Author

  Sarah Prineas lives in the midst of the corn in Iowa City, Iowa, and can usually be found writing fantasy novels and stories on a stealthy silver MacBook called Pip. Prineas’s Magic Thief series introduced readers to the irascible wizard Nevery and his gutterboy apprentice, Connwaer. Sarah holds a PhD in English literature and recently taught honors seminars on fantasy and science fiction literature at the University of Iowa. She has an amazing dragon action-figure collection and occasionally bakes biscuits (although she says hers never seem to turn out as tasty as Benet’s do in THE MAGIC THIEF).

  Sarah is married to John Prineas, a physics professor, which comes in handy when she’s writing about magic. They are the parents of Maud and Theo. You can visit Sarah online at www.sarah-prineas.com.

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  Credits

  Jacket art © 2012 by Jason Chan

  Jacket design by Tom Forget

  Copyright

  Winterling

  Copyright © 2012 by Sarah Prineas

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Prineas, Sarah.

  Winterling / Sarah Prineas. — 1st ed.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Spirited young Fer travels through the Way to a magical world in which beings part human and part animal serve an evil ruler known as the Lady, and where she hopes to learn about her long-lost parents and her own identitiy.

  ISBN 978-0-06-192103-2 (trade bdg.) — ISBN 978-0-06-192104-9 (lib. bdg.)

  [1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Identity—Fiction. 3. Shape-shifting—Fiction. 4. Fantasy.] I. Title.

  PZ7.P93646 Win 2012

  [Fic]—dc23

  2011019974

  CIP

  AC

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  First Edition

  EPub Edition © November 2011 ISBN: 9780062102171

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