Most Popular Books by Marie McSwigan

In the bleak winter of 1940, Nazi troops parachuted into Peter Lundstrom''s tiny Norwegian village and held it captive. Nobody thought the Nazis could be defeated—until Uncle Victor told Peter how the children could fool the enemy. It was a dangerous plan. They had to slip past Nazi guards with nine million dollars in gold hidden on their sleds. It meant risking their country''s treasure—and their lives. This classic story of how a group of children outwitted the Nazis and sent the treasure to America has captivated generations of readers.

"A story built on facts of an escape of liberty-loving Czechoslovaks into the United States Zone of Germany in September 1951." Introduction.

When Binnie Horne''s family moves to a new neighborhood, she wants to pick up her journalism interest again right away, but it''s not as easy as she thought it would be, and she eventually finds another interest in fundraising for a South Dakota Indian school.

Patrick Halligan enlists the help of an island caretaker to create a hometown circus and raise money for a ball field.