Midwinterblood is the first of this year’s Carnegie Medal nominees that I’ve read-I’m reading them all because the school library has ordered them, and another English teacher mentioned she planned to read them and hopefully get some students to read some of them as well. For centuries, the inhabitants of Blessed have cultivated this flower and reaped its benefits. On this island, and only on this island-only on its western half, in fact-grows the Dracula orchid, a dragon-like flower that bequeaths health and longevity. Come with me on a journey to the isle of Blessed, a remote island somewhere above the Arctic Circle.
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