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4) Holland
Author
Publisher
Lemniscaat LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Holland--a land full of surprises, strange traditions, free-spirited people and a rich history.
5) Popcorn Bob
Author
Series
Popcorn Bob volume 1
Publisher
Amsterdam
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young girl who loves popcorn discovers that her favorite treat has turned into Popcorn Bob! Will she be able to keep him a secret until she can get rid of him?
6) Storm horse
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 18
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness and freedom.
15) The unadoptables
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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...
16) Boxes for Katje
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.
19) Mishka
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Roya, her three brothers, and their parents have a new family member -- Mishka, a bunny rabbit. He soon becomes a beloved part of their new home and gradually, the rabbit -- and also Roya -- get to hear the story of the family's journey from Afghanistan to the Netherlands. Told from different perspectives every time: big Bashir, gentle Hamayun, tough Navid, and sometimes Mom and Dad. Mishka and Roya listen. Anoush Elman and Edward van de Vendel...