*2nd Place 2004 Golden Eagle Book Award for Children's Choice *Chosen for 2002 "Our Choice" Canadian Children's Centre literature guide The third book in the popular Freyan Trilogy, The Turning Time picks up the adventures of Kerstin Speller, now eighteen years old, as she returns to her homeland and finds she must once again fight prejudice against her friends from neighbouring Uglessia, Freya's old rival nation. This novel culminates a work of wondrous scope and imagination, wherein Smith has created a world that is at once fantastic and compellingly real.