- Young adult fiction, German Occupation of Netherlands (1940-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01353182, Juvenile fiction, Grandmothers
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
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Grave, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Aidan Chambers, Matt Jones
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Speak, Dutton Books, Puffin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780370323763
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British playwright and children's author who won a number of awards, including the 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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