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CONTROL NUMBER |
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00005624 |
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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201011021334 |
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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s eng |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0142401455 |
AUTHOR NAME |
AUTHOR NAME |
Chambers, Aidan |
TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Postcards from no man's land |
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Books, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1999. |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
312 p. ; |
Dimensions |
22 cm. |
GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Winner of the Carnegie Medal (UK), 1999, and the Andersen Prize (Italy).
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Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults, 2003. |
SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
lternates 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. |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction. |
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Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction. |
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Umarried mothers--Fiction. |
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Coming of age--Fiction. |
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Grandparents--Fiction. |
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
02. English Fiction |