Odin's Promise: A Novel of Norway

2014 MIDWEST BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDAL for CHILDREN'S FICTION

Listed among 2014 BEST BOOKS FOR GIRLS by A MIGHTY GIRL.

ODIN'S PROMISE is a historical novel for middle-grade readers, a story of the first year of German occupation of Norway in World War II as seen through the eyes of a young girl.

Eleven-year-old Mari grew up tucked safely under the wings of her parents, grandma, and her older siblings. After Hitler's troops invade Norway in Spring 1940, she is forced to grow beyond her "little girl...