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, she resents even more the Nazis’ presence and her grandfather’s refusal to oppose them.

Related: Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Norway

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• ISBN: 9780618883936
• Author: Casanova, Mary
• Published: 2007, Houghton Mifflin
• Themes: Family, Holocaust, Nazi, Occupation, Refugees, underground movement, World War II
• Descriptors: Germany, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Norway
• No. of pages: 240