Snow Maze

One day, on the way to school, Joe finds a large, heavy key in the long grass. Joe thinks a giant might have dropped it; Irrum thinks it might be magic; Akash says the key is no good because it doesn't open anything. But when Joe tries the key in the lonely gate, he opens up a whole new world...

Jan Mark is one of the most distinguished authors of books for young people today. In addition to two Carnegie Medals, she has also won The Guardian Award, The Observer Teen Fiction Prize and the Mother Goose Award. Jan lives in Oxford. Jan Ormerod won several awards for her first book, "Sunshine". She was born and brought up in Western Australia but now lives in Cambridge with her two daughters.