This book is as exciting and enticing as "Snow Treasure" and would be a good candidate for reissuing in paperback (perhaps by Scholastic Books?) I read it as a child, but I remember it as being about the division of Germany after World War II and a train escape from Berlin. Two places I visited in Europe brought home to me the meaning of freedom--The Checkpoint Charlie Museum, about daring and sometimes doomed escapes from Berlin, and the Anne Frank house/museum in Amsterdam. A book like "All Aboard for Freedom" would help children of today understand the price of freedom and its value.

Wow--this book is hard to put down; it skims along as swiftly as the kids riding their sleds downhill (smuggling gold bullion right past Nazi soldiers), to be loaded aboard a camouflaged ship and taken to America for safe keeping. What was a simple, childhood pasttime has now beome a matter of life and death.

Based on a probably true story, but Fact or legend, it could well have happened this way. This exciting little book is a tribute to the courage and dedication to Freedom of the people of Norway during the winter of 1940, when Nazis invaded even this tiny village. No one thought they could be defeated, yet Peter's Uncle Viktor suggested a plan which involved school children in a fabulously daring smuggling adventure! If you want to read more about Scandinavian resistance to the Nazi's, try Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, set in Denmark. Snow Treasure is a literary treasure of tension, histoircal fiction which might have been historical fact!

Snow Treasure is a book for people who like action and adventure. The story is about his friends and other children that are trying to keep their country's gold from the invading Nazis. In April 1940 there was a heavy snow, and the Germans had already invaded them. The men of the village were trying to figure out a way to get the gold out of Norway. Nobody could think of a way to get it to the U.S until Uncle Victor saw Peter standing in the doorway, and he had the idea of smuggling the gold out on the sleds. Uncle Victor appoints Peter the head of the "Defense Club," which are the kids that take the gold down to the Uncle Victor's boat. To find out how the story ends read the book yourself.

I read this book when I was 10 - I'm now 41. I've been looking for 31 years to find this book again and I'm ordering one dozen copies as soon as I'm done writing this review.

This story has stayed with me since the day I read it. The courage and commitment of the children to help their country. The risks they took to move the gold under the very noses of Nazi officers. Boys and girls alike did their part to protect Norway's gold and their own futures.

I can't wait to wrap up these Christmas presents for every child I know. This was one of the best books I've ever read and I can't wait to read it again.

31 years - I don't think that's too long a time for success.