Age: Norway

Materials from Norway

The Klipfish Code

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The year is 1942, and Norway is under Nazi occupation. Ten-year-old Merit is sent with her younger brother to Godoy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans Bomb Norway in 1940. Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, [...]

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Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

Samuel and Martha have just moved to Norway to live with their aunt Eda, and she’s taking some getting used to. She has too many rules, no TV, and insists that they eat local delicacies like brown cheese and reindeer soup. And then there’s the most peculiar thing about her—her irrational fear of her own [...]

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Markus + Diana

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 7, 2007

A moment of false bravado and some imaginative letters allow shy, anxiety-ridden, thirteen-year-old Markus to connect with a Hollywood star, but when she returns home to Norway she wants to meet the thirty-six-year-old millionaire she believes him to be.  

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Protected: Norway

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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Welcome Back Sun

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

During ‘murketiden,’ the dark months between September and March, a Norwegian girl and her family try to hasten the arrival of spring.

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Snow Treasure

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In 1940, when the Nazis reached their village, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport gold bullion to the secret harbor where Peter’s uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States.

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The Land And People Of Norway

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Introduces the history, geography, people, culture, government, and economy of Norway. Also written by Patricia Lander.

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Good Babies: A Tale of Trolls, Humans, a Witch and a Switch

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A wicked witch’s plan to wreak havoc by switching a human baby and a troll baby backfires in a surprising way.

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The Grandchildren of the Vikings

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

This book shows the daily lives of children in five areas settled by the Vikings.

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