The klipfish code
Title:
The klipfish code
Author:
Casanova, Mary
ISBN:
9780547744476
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007
Physical Description:
227 p. : map ; 22 cm
Abstract:
Sent with her younger brother to God?y Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.
Subject:
| Patriotism -- Fiction |
| Family life -- Norway -- Fiction |
| Refugees -- Fiction |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Norway -- Fiction |
| Norway -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction |
Summary:
Sent with her younger brother to God?y Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resents even more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.