Mari s Hope (Paperback)

Transports readers to the cold landscape of wartime Norway as a brave young heroine faces the cruel reality of oppression to join the underground resistance and do whatever it takes it save her family and her country. -- Michelle Houts author of Winterfrost MARI S HOPE delivers the dramatic conclusion to the trilogy begun with Odin s Promise awarded the 2014 Midwest Book Award for Children s Fiction and Bjorn s Gift (2016). In Mari s Hope set in a small village in occupied western Norway in the final years of World War II young Mari has become a valued helper to the village doctor. She also plays a role in her family s efforts in the local resistance despite ever-present dangers especially from the snooping soldier called Goatman and from Leif her one-time school friend now a German collaborator. As the German war efforts falter the pressure increases on the occupying troops to hold Norway firmly in their grip. But freedom-loving Norwegians will do their best to thwart those plans. Praise for the series: An exciting look at the occupation of Norway through the eyes of a young brave girl. - Angela Cerrito author of The Safest Lie.