Snow Treasure (The Rescue of the Hidden Gold)

156 pp. Illustrated by Andrew LaBlanc. This story really happened. On June 28, 1940, the Norwegian freighter Bomma reached Baltimore with a cargo of gold bullion worth $9,000,000. When the Bomma's captain asked for a police escort while unloading the bullion, a strange story came to light. The gold, it was learned, had been slipped past Nazi sentries by Norwegian boys and girls! Under the very eyes of the enemy, these children had pulled the gold on their sleds to a freighter hidden in a fjord off Norway's coast.