The Invention of Lefse: A Christmas Story

by Larry Woiwode

Book Overview

"Mette Iversdatter's window was a porthole on the winter sky."

Larry Woiwode brings us into the simple and anxious rhythms of life for a Norwegian farm girl in the first decade of the twentieth century. Christmas Eve falls in the midst of deprivation as Mette's family prepares to journey to her grandparents' farm. When her father fails to bag a big deer on the journey, they arrive, like everyone else, almost empty-handed. Yet despite frustration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433527367
• ISBN13: 9781433527364
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Crossway
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7