| Tamar |
| A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal |
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author: Mal Peet
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| When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War — and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar’s life forever. |
| "This beautifully structured and highly suspenseful story of the Dutch Resistance is positively Hitchcockian in its examination of the darker reaches of the human heart." — Booklist |
suggested retail price (U.S.):
$10.99 |
isbn-10/isbn-13:
1536200301 / 9781536200300 |
pub date:
09/2018 |
type/format:
Young Adult Novel / Paperback |
age range:
14 yrs and up
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# of pages/size:
432 / 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" |
grade range:
Grade 9 and up
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subjects:
Family; Historical; |
author’s comments:
Mal Peet (1947–2015) was the acclaimed author of the Carnegie Medal–winning novel Tamar as well as the Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Life: An Exploded Diagram and three Paul Faustino novels: Keeper, The Penalty, and Exposure, a winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He is also the co-author of Cloud Tea Monkeys, Mysterious Traveler, and Night Sky Dragons, all of which he wrote with his wife, Elspeth Graham. |
