A Light in the Dunes
Just like the woman in the legend that haunts her and after whom she is named, fourteen-year-old Rikst de Bruin loves beachcombing after the winter storms that bring treasures to the shores of the island where she lives. Then one day she and her friend stumble across a body on the beach and see what appears to be the ghost of Rixt, the witch of the …
A Time to Choose
The year is 1944. Sixteen-year-old Johannes van der Meer's homeland has been occupied by the Nazis for four long years. While enduring food shortages and nightly air raids, the people of the Netherlands wait patiently for the liberation they know will come. But for Johannes the struggle to endure is full of bitterness. The fact that his father is a …
Daughter of Light
Daughter of Light
martha attema
Sidney Taylor Book Award Notable Book from
the Association of Jewish Libraries
CCBC Our Choice 2002
In the darkest days of WWII, nine-year-old Ria is determined that her mother give birth in a home filled with light.
Despite the cold, harsh winter, German occupying forces have cut the supply of electricity to civilia …
Hero
Els is a courier, a girl who takes Jewish children on the back of her bike to safety on farms in Friesland. When she leaves Isaak, disguised as Jan, at a farmhouse with kind people, he is miserable until he makes friends with a beautiful black horse, Hero, a Frisian wanted by the Germans. The first time the Germans come for the horse, Isaak comes u …
"Jan! Move!" Els screamed. "The soldiers must not find us! We have to hide! They'll kill us! It's past curfew!"
Izaak jumped to his feet fast as a cannonball. He grabbed Els's hand and she pulled him down the slope of the canal that ran alongside the road.
The Paper Wagon
"The rooster has been kidnapped by the fox. What is the little hen to do? Go to the shed and build a paper wagon, that's what. With two Herculean mice in place of horses, the little hen heads for the fox's house deep in the forest. On the way, she is joined by a cat, a brick, a needle and a hairy spider, all desperate for a ride. Will they be able …
When The War Is Over
NY Public Libraries Books for the Teen Age List 2004
Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award nominee 2004
CCBC Our Choice 2003
In occupied Holland during World War II, sixteen-year-old Janke Visser watches her father's and brother's involvement with the Resistance movement in their small town and longs to help fight the Nazi invaders. But there is tens …