Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal



Author: Peet, Mal

Title: Tamar: a novel of espionage, passion, and betrayal

Published: Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2007

Description: 424 p. ; 23 cm.

Call Number: PZ7 P3564 T36 2007

Summary: In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family

Subject(s):
  • Grandfathers -- Fiction
  • Guilt -- Fiction
  • Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction
Review(s):
  • Sutton, Roger. "Tamar." Horn Book Magazine 83, no. 2 (March 2007): 200-201
  • "Tamar." Kirkus Reviews 75, no. 5 (March 2007): 9-10
  • Zvirin, Stephanie. "Tamar." Booklist 103, no. 11 (February 2007): 47
Read: June 22, 2011