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Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever.
So when an enormous white bear shows up one cold autumn evening and asks teenage Rose to come away with it--in exchange for health and prosperity for her ailing family--she readily agrees.
Rose travels on the bear's broad back to a distant and empty castle, where she is nightly joined by a mysterious stranger. In discovering his identity, she loses her heart-- and finds her purpose--and realizes her journey has only just begun.
507 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2003
They journeyed far and the white bear said,
"Are you afraid?"
"No," she replied. "I am not afraid."
She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.
She traveled on the back of the North Wind to the very end of the world