Postcards from no man's land /
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Dutton Books,
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Originally published: London : Random House Children's Books, 1999. |
| Physical Description: | 312 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Awards: | Horn Book Fanfare List, 2003. Carnegie Medal, 1999 |
| ISBN: | 0525468633 |