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Winter in Wartime

โœ Scribed by Terlouw, Jan;Watkinson, Laura

Book ID
100674058
Publisher
New York Review Books
Year
2020
Tongue
en-US
Weight
104 KB
Series
NYRB kids
Edition
PB
Category
Fiction
City
Netherlands,Netherlands.
ISBN
1681374277

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โœฆ Synopsis

A gripping and fast-paced adventure story about one boy's life-threatening mission to support the secret resistance in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, based on the author's own childhood in Holland during World War II.
It's the winter of 1944-45, and Michiel's country has been at war since he was eleven. Now he's fifteen, and his country is under Nazi occupation, including the town where Michiel lives and where his father is the mayor. No longer able to attend school, Michiel spends his days running urgent errands on his bicycle, avoiding Allied bombers and German soldiers alike. Then one day, his friendship with Dirk, the neighbor's older son and a member of the secret underground, involves him in the care of a wounded British pilot. When a German soldier is found murdered and the townspeople are blamed for his death, Michiel's already-risky mission turns life-threatening. Winter in Wartime is a fast-paced and exciting novel, which has never been out of print in the...

โœฆ Subjects

Netherlands

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