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Shadow on the Mountain: A Novel Inspired by the True Adventures of a Wartime Spy
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Shadow on the Mountain: A Novel Inspired by the True Adventures of a Wartime Spy Paperback - 2014

by Margi Preus

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In her new novel, a Newbery Honor winner recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II. Preus incorporates archival photographs, maps, and other images to tell this story based on the real-life adventures of Norwegian Erling Storrusten, whom Preus interviewed in Norway.

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From the Newbery Honor-winning author Margi Preus, the award-winning Shadow on the Mountain recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II--based on a true story.

After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a spy, dodging the Gestapo along the way. During five years under the Nazi regime, he gains--and loses--friends, falls in love, and makes one small mistake that threatens to catch up with him as he sets out to escape on skis over the mountains to Sweden.

Preus incorporates archival photographs, maps, and other images to tell this story based on the real-life adventures of Norwegian Erling Storrusten, whom Preus interviewed in Norway.

"Preus deftly uses together historical fact (Espen is based on a real-life spy) and elements of Norwegian culture to conjure a time and place not so terribly long ago." --Wall Street Journal

"Engrossing . . . This is at once a spy thriller, a coming-of-age story, and a chronicle of escalating bravery. Multidimensional characters fill this gripping tale that keeps readers riveted to the end." --School Library Journal (Starred Review)

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  • Title Shadow on the Mountain: A Novel Inspired by the True Adventures of a Wartime Spy
  • Author Margi Preus
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Amulet Books
  • Publication date 2014-03-18
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9781419711596 / 1419711598
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 14.22 x 2.79 cm)
  • Age range 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 730
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Scandinavian
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Adventure and adventurers
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Margi Preus is an acclaimed children's book author and playwright whose first novel, Heart of a Samurai, earned a 2011 Newbery Honor award. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

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