Winter's End

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2006 by Gallimard Jeunesse

English translation copyright © 2008 by Anthea Bell

Cover photographs: copyright © 2009 by Tracey Fahy/Millennium Images, UK (bridge); copyright © 2009 by Glasshouse Images/ic/Wildcard Images, UK (silhouette)

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

First U.S. electronic edition 2010

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Mourlevat, Jean-Claude.

[Combat d’hiver. English]

Winter’s end / by Jean-Claude Mourlevat ;

translated by Anthea Bell. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: Fleeing across icy mountains from a pack of terrifying dog-men sent to hunt them down, four teenagers escape from their prison-like boarding schools to take up the fight against the tyrannical government that murdered their parents fifteen years earlier.

ISBN 978-0-7636-4450-5 (hardcover)

[1. Fantasy. 2. Despotism — Fiction. 3. Adventure and adventurers — Fiction. 4. Orphans — Fiction.]

I. Bell, Anthea. II. Title.

PZ7.M8646Wi 2009

[Fic] — dc22 2009008456

ISBN 978-0-7636-5174-9 (electronic)

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