netherlands

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netherlands

Holland

2003
Presents region-by-region information for travelers to Holland, including details on its history, landscape, sites to see, lodging, and restaurants, and provides color photos, maps, and cutaways throughout.

Sky

a true story of courage during World War II : illustrated with photographs, documents, and letters from the author's collection
1998
The true story of a young girl's involvement with the Dutch Resistance during World War II and her subsequent arrest and imprisonment by the Germans.

Melanie Martin goes Dutch

the private diary of my almost bummer summer with Cecily, Matt the brat, and Vincent van Go Go Go
2002
In her diary, ten-year-old Melanie describes how she and her family, accompanied by her best friend Cecily, travel to the Netherlands, where they have a good time despite Cecily's concern for her mother's health and Melanie's struggles with her little brother and her own attitude.

The first tulips in Holland

1982
A fictionalized account of how a Dutch merchant brought tulip bulbs from Persia to Holland where they became immensely popular.

The Trimoni Twins and the shrunken treasure

2005
On a stop in Amsterdam with the circus, magical twins Mimi and Beezel set out to help their tutor's Uncle Hoogaboom and a handsome teenage movie star solve a mystery involving lost treasure and a shrinking coin.

I am Rembrandt's daughter

2008
In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a wealthy suitor.

The hiding place

2006
A thirty-fifth anniversary edition of the biography of Corrie Ten Boom, a leader of the Dutch underground who hid scores of Jews from the Nazi's during World War II.

Hans Brinker

or, The silver skates
1975
A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.

A time to choose

1995
Fact-based story about sixteen-year-old Johannes van der Meer, a young man from the Netherlands whose homeland is suffering from Nazi occupation, who decides to join the Dutch resistance after his family is branded as traitors due to his father's collaboration with the Nazis.

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