TY - BOOK AU - Parr,Maria AU - Puzey,Guy AU - Harnett,Katie TI - Astrid the unstoppable SN - 9781536200171 AV - PZ7.P24463 As 2018 U1 - F PAR 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Somerville, Massachusetts PB - Candlewick Press KW - Girls KW - Norway KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Rural children KW - Children and adults KW - Friendship KW - Fiction KW - Humorous fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Translation of: Tonje Glimmerdal; OBOB Elementary 2021-2022; Booklist starred, November 2018; Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, October 2018; Publishers Weekly, October 2018; Horn Book, January 2019; 5.8; 3-6; 770L; Lexile N2 - Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival of a family with children to her village, and then by a mysterious woman whom everyone but Astrid seems to know. Astrid isn't happy about all the changes in Glimmerdal. Luckily, she has a plan to set things right ER -