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Tamar

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...

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Main Author: Peet, Mal
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2007.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
England > Fiction.
Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction.
Guilt > Juvenile fiction.
Netherlands > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Netherlands > Juvenile fiction.
England > Juvenile fiction.
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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.
Physical Description:424 p. ; 23 cm.
Awards:A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN:9780763634889 (reinforced)
0763634883 (reinforced)
Author Notes:Mal Peet was born in 1947. Before becoming a children's author, he worked as a teacher and for educational publishers. His first novel, Keeper, won the Branford Boase award and Nestle Children's Book Award. He also won the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for Tamar and the Guardian children's fiction prize in 2009 for Exposure. He co-authored a series of children's books with his wife Elspeth Graham. His first novel for adults, The Murdstone Trilogy, was published in 2014. He died from cancer on March 2, 2015 at the age of 67.

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