- Published: New York : Dutton Books, 2002, c1999.
- Year Published: 1999
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Description: 312 p. ; 24 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
Reading Level
- Lexile: 900
ISBN/Standard Number
- 0142401455 :
- 0525468633 :
Series
Subjects
- World War, -- 1939-1945. -- Fiction
- Unmarried mothers -- Fiction.
- Grandmothers -- Fiction.
- Assisted suicide -- Fiction.
- Coming of age -- Fiction.
- Netherlands -- Fiction. -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
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Originally published: London : Random House Children's Books, 1999.
Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, 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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