Postcards from no man's land /

Chambers, Aidan.

Postcards from no man's land / Aidan Chambers. - New York : Speak, 2004, c1999. - 312 p. ; 22 cm.

Originally published: London : Random House Children's Books, c1999.

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.

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in Young Adult literature. Carnegie Medal winner




World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Unmarried mothers--Fiction.
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Assisted suicide--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Printz Medal.


Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Netherlands--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.

YA PZ 7 .C3557 / Po 2004