title: Deep Sea
author:  Annika Thor 
description: Gr 610Almost four years have passed since Stephie and Nellie Steiner, introduced in A Faraway Island (2009) and The Lily Pond (2011, both Delacorte), were sent from Nazi-occupied Vienna to Sweden by their parents. Letters from Vienna have stopped, replaced by periodic postcards from Theresienstadt containing exactly 30 words each. Stephie, now 16, is living on the mainland to attend grammar school, supported by the Swedish relief committee, while the younger Nellie remains on the island with Auntie Alma's family. The teen is torn between wanting to continue her education and feeling guilt at being away from Nellie, whose memory of their parents has given way to deepening bonds with her foster family. Overshadowing all is the protagonist's constant worry about her parents. Thor includes details that demonstrate how Sweden, though technically neutral, was nonetheless greatly affected by the surrounding war, and she deftly balances the sisters' everyday concerns with the greater psychological aspects of being refugees. Readers who want to know more behind the unwritten words on the postcards might be steered to Susan Goldman Rubin's illustrated nonfiction books about life in Theresienstadt, Fireflies in the Dark (2001) and The Cat with the Yellow Star (2006, both Holiday).Susan Stan, Professor Emerita of English, Central Michigan University
zlib_text: CHASING FOR CUBS
  SHIFTER SQUAD NINE
  
  ANYA NOWLAN
  
  CONTENTS
  A Little Taste…
  Copyright
  Prologue
  1.  Thor
  2.  Nia
  3.  Thor
  4.  Nia
  5.  Nia
  6.  Nia
  7.  Nia
  8.  Thor
  9.  Nia
  10.  Thor
  11.  Thor
  12.  Thor
  13.  Nia
  14.  Nia
  15.  Thor
  16.  Nia
  17.  Thor
  18.  Nia
  19.  Thor
  20.  Thor
  21.  Thor
  22.  Thor
  23.  Thor
  24.  Nia
  Epilogue
  Twice the Pups Excerpt
  Want More?
  About the Author
  Thank you for reading!
  
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  A LITTLE TASTE…
  ia relaxed a little. If he could laugh about his somewhat murderous existence, maybe it wasn’t too
  bad?
  “So how come you’re not with the Navy anymore?” she asked, willing the conversation to keep
  going.
  “I was with the SEALs for a few years. Got dishonorably discharged,” Thor explained, his
  expression turning dangerously neutral again. “Anger management problems,” he said, smiling again
  as if nothing had happened.
  You keep hanging on his every word! Stop it!
  She wasn’t going to stop it.
  “Would have never guessed,” she teased, and Thor squeezed her hand at that.
  “Liar.”
  “Only wh