Tamar

Title
Tamar

Personal Author EPSB
Mal. Peet

Summary
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.

Year Published
2007

Physical Description
424 p. ; 23 cm.

Grade Interest level
All Secondary

Program Information
Gr. 8+
 
ACCELERATED READER-BLUE 17

Awards
A Junior Library Guild selection

Subject
Grandfathers -- Fiction.
 
Guilt -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Netherlands -- Underground movements -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
 
England -- Fiction.
 
Netherlands -- History -- 1940-1945, German occupation -- Fiction.

Summary
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.

ISBN
9780763634889

Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2007.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
D.S. MacKenzieF PEEBook30522000362191Historical Fiction