Snow Treasure: by Marie McSwigan, Historical Fiction -Chapter Book

Snow Treasure is a thrilling tale of Norwegian children and their contributions to protecting their towns gold during the German occupation in 1940. Being convinced that the Germans will try to steal their town’s considerable wealth of gold bricks from the banks, the townsmen decided that it must be removed. Since the adults can’t remove the gold without the Germans becoming suspicious a plan is developed involving the children. In teams, the children will carry the bricks on their sleds down to the river where one of the townsmen will load them onto his ship to take to the United States. Various problems arise as the children begin to carry out this plan, but they are resolved. I would use this book in the classroom as a historical fiction book within a unit on WWII. This would be good to show students other stories from WWII then the ones they normally hear about.