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Postcards from no man's land (Record no. 235229)

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CONTROL NUMBER
control field 00005624
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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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).
-- 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.
-- Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
-- Umarried mothers--Fiction.
-- Coming of age--Fiction.
-- Grandparents--Fiction.
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type 02. English Fiction
Copies
Piece designation (barcode) Koha full call number School Code Collection
UPEI7538F CHAEducation Learning CommonsInternational