
Shadow Creatures
by Chris Vick
Title:
Shadow Creatures
Author:
Chris Vick
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
336 pages
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
ISBN-13:
9781837933167
EAN:
9781837933167
Classifications:
Teenage Fiction
Weight (g):
360
Dimensions (mm):
200 x 130 x 22
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
WINNER of the Historical Association's Young Quills Award 2025The Spectator BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS 2024Tove 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.












