Snow Maidens' School and the mystery of the missing Keeper. Price - 28 lari. Hardcover. Pages - 280. Age - 7-12 years. A kind fantasy fairy tale with a New Year plot, mysteries and investigations. On an island among northern seas stands a castle where snow maidens and apprentices study. Any moment now, eleven-year-old snow maiden Alyona Salinder may be expelled from school. She badly needs to prove herself on a mission! But trouble: on her very first flight Alyona has a bag of magic toys, meant for children for New Year, stolen. After a series of failures and strange coincidences, Alyona thinks the White Gull is hunting her. This sorceress destroyed one of the school's students many years ago and vanished without a trace. Together with her, the Crystal of the North disappeared, the crystal that holds the magic of winter. Alyona feels a connection to the elusive Keeper of the Crystal. Perhaps she is the one who knows why Alyona has a nightmare almost every night? In this terrible dream the snow maiden turns into ice again and again. While searching for the gifts with her loyal polar fox, Alyona does not suspect that she herself is the main key to the mystery of the missing Keeper.