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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
When his older sister Els, a Resistance fighter, is arrested by the Gestapo, thirteen-year-old Dirk takes his little sister, Anna, across the war-torn Netherlands seeking their father, who is also in the Dutch Resistance. Includes an interview with the author, discussion questions, and timeline.
3) Storm horse
Author
Summary
His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with the local bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea and discovers a new purpose in caring for his charge....
4) Tamar
Author
Lexile Measure
780L
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1954
Lexile Measure
710L
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Summary
In the tiny sea town of Shora, Holland, Lina (one of Shora's six school children) wonders why there are no storks around because storks come to all the other villages. Her queries set off a chain of incidents wherein the five boys, Lina, their teacher, and several other Shorans become engaged in a rather frantic search for wheels to put on their roofs as nest bases for the birds.
Author
Series
Thea Stilton volume 18
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile Measure
640L
Summary
Attending an art class in the Netherlands, Violet journeys through the flower gardens, windmills and canals of Holland to investigate the untimely disappearance of her friend's father, a renowned botanist whose absence is linked to a rare black tulip.
10) The unadoptables
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
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...
11) The popcorn spy
Author
Series
Bob Popcorn volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
By now, Ellis has grown to love Popcorn Bob. But it's harder than Ellis thinks to keep a sentient popcorn kernel a secret, because soon her friend and next-door neighbor Dante has spotted him. She can trust Dante, though, and it's good timing, since they're being tailed by both a bearded American and the owner of Popcorn & Co. Ellis and Bob are going to need all the help they can get to escape them.