Tamar by Mal Peet Paperback

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Country of Origin: United States Illustrator: Yes Type: Novel Format: Trade Paperback height: 1.2 in Inscribed: Yes Book Title: tamar Item Length: 8 in Author: Mal Peet Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults Topic: Historical / Exploration & Discovery, General, People & Places / Europe, Family / Multigenerational, Historical / Military & Wars Signed: No width: 5.5 in Item Height: 1.2 in Ex Libris: Yes Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction ISBN: 9780763640637 Original Language: English Item Width: 5.5 in Publisher: Candlewick Press Number of Pages: 420 Narrative Type: Nonfiction Features: Ex-Library Publication Year: 2008 Language: English

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Tamar by Mal Peet Paperback. 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 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.