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The Girl in the Blue Coat

The Girl in the Blue Coat

Author(s): Monica Hesse

Location(s): Amsterdam

Genre(s): Young Adult

Era(s): WW2

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Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front line when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion. But one day Hanneke gets a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to find a girl. A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her house. A Jewish girl . . .

As she searches for clues Hanneke is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries. Can she find the runaway before the Nazis do?

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The diary of Anne Frank had brought to life this era in Dutch history. Here is a modern author taking us through the same streets of WW2 with a flawed yet determined girl, Hanneke....

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