Shadow Creatures
This novel spans a five-year period from 1940 to 1945 in Nazi-occupied Norway. Tove and Liva are sisters. They have an older brother, Hakken. How far will they go to resist the occupiers? In this gripping novel of the Milorg, the Norwegian Resistance, otherwise known as the Shadow Creatures, we learn how risky and how varied, the means of resistance could be.
Teacher strikes against the Nazification of the curricula and the smuggling of food to prisoners in the labour camps were common. Tove and Liva work in the camps while their brother is involved in two major acts of resistance. The Milorg organises him to deliver messages, hidden in loaves of bread, and to blow up Nazi supply lines. All this is explored from the point of view of each of the sisters, in alternating chapters.
This location of World War Two is less known outside Scandinavia, and Chris Vick shines a light on it expertly and with great humanity and compassion. This will be an excellent addition to school libraries where the period is regularly studied.
