Girls I Envied in Literature.

Snow Treasure is a story about Norwegian children assisting their motherland by smuggling millions of dollars of Nazi gold via sled, past the German army. Helga Thomsen is a 12-year old tomboy whose:

“black curls hung like sausages from under the cherry red of her hood”.

‘Nuff said.

About kara

We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.
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