once upon a time hazel and jack were best friends they had been best friends since they were six spending hot minneapolis summers and cold minneapolis winters together dreaming of hogwarts and oz superheroes and baseball now that they were eleven it was weird for a boy and a girl to be best friends but they couldnt help it hazel and jack fit in that way you only read about in books and they didnt fit anywhere else and then one day it was over jack just stopped talking to hazel and while her mom tried to tell her that this sometimes happens to boys and girls at this age hazel had read enough stories to know that its never that simple and it turns out she was right jacks heart had been frozen and he was taken into the woods by a woman dressed in white to live in a palace made of ice now its up to hazel to venture into the woods after him hazel finds however that these woods are nothing like what shes read about and the jack that hazel went in to save isnt the same jack that will emerge or even the same hazelinspired by hans christian andersens the snow queen breadcrumbs is a story of the struggle to hold on and the things we leave behind