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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
5) Tamar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
Description
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"No one has ever accused Sage Cunningham of being easily distracted. She has a plan, and she won't be swayed. She'll spend the summer interning in her mentor's lab in Amsterdam, and then she'll be ready for college. All she needs to do to pay for the summer abroad is agree to serve as the au pair for Dr. Reese's three-year-old. Sage has it all down to a science, but she doesn't anticipate the surprise arrival of Dr. Reese's teenage son. Ryland is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1963, c1962]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, ten-year-old Joris and his older brother Dirk Jan become involved in the resistance movement and, with the help of their parents, help conceal a British airman.
10) Boxes for Katje
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After a young Dutch girl writes to her New American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"For generations, Mevan and her family lived in their beloved Kurdistan. But when they are forced to flee by the Iraqi government, Mevan must leave everything behind. Her family travels from country to country in search of safety and with each stop, Mevan feels more and more alone--until a stranger's gift changes everything"--
14) The unadoptables
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think...
16) Fing's war
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Follows teenaged Fing Boon and her large, impoverished, eccentric family as they navigate the changes World War II visits upon their little town on the border of the Netherlands and Germany.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Mouschi the cat relates the experiences of Anne Frank and seven other people who hid in from Nazis in a secret annex over a factory in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. Includes facts about the Holocaust and about Anne Frank.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Alex joins his father on a business trip to Amsterdam. During the day he hangs out with the daughter of a family friend. They visit the usual sights but also coffee shops and flea markets off the beaten track. At one of these markets Alex spots an ancient-looking mask. Before he knows what he's doing he buys it. Later, in his hotel room, he feels compelled to put the mask on. Alex is sucked into a parallel Amsterdam, one from centuries before which...