Chris Vick

Shadow Creatures (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

WINNER of the Historical Association's Young Quills Award 2025 The Spectator BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS 2024 Tove was 12 and Liva 9, when the Germans occupied Norway. They remember everything as if it happened yesterday. A middle grade story of bravery, resilience, rivalries and shadow creatures in the night. Mose and her daughter Agna are incomers in the village, treated with suspicion. But young Liva, left out of the secrets her sister Tove and brother Hakken share, idolises Agna and follows her everywhere. Unwittingly, they lead the German soldiers to a perfect island. Once a haven for picnics and story-telling under the midnight sun, it is transformed into a grim POW camp. This is an unlikely place to find buried treasure, but it's there. Friendships are made and broken, family trust is turned upside down and lives change forever as Tove and Liva recall their childhood experiences of living through WW2 in a story that moves from light to darkness to light again.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781837933136
• Artikelnr.: 72250576

Autorenporträt

Chris Vick is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People. In between writing and teaching, Chris works for a whale and dolphin conservation charity and is a member of Authors4Oceans. He lives near Bath with his wife and daughter. Girl. Boy. Sea. (Zephyr) was shortlisted for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal.

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Rezensionen

'A triumph. Vick is a masterful storyteller. This beautifully written story should whet readers' appetites... Given that the Second World War is no longer a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum, such books are all the more to be cherished.'