Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
year: 2004, 2002
call number/section: 1000
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, fiction, unmarried mothers, grandmothers, assisted suicide, coming of age, netherlands, history, german occupation, 1940-1945, fiction, juvenile fiction, juvenile fiction, euthanasia, bildungsromans
Editions
Chambers, Aidan
Speak (2004)
Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
Schools: 7
Chambers, Aidan
Dutton Books (2002)
Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.
Schools: 17