Tamar

Resource Information

The work Tamar represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Culver-Union Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Tamar

Statement of responsibility

Mal Peet

Creator

• Peet, Mal
• truePeet, Mal
• Peet, Mal

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands -- Fiction
• trueNetherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
• Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
• Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
• trueParallel narratives
• trueResistance to military occupation
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueSecrecy
• trueSecret identity
• trueSoldiers -- Netherlands
• trueSurvival
• trueSurvivor guilt
• trueUndercover operations
• trueWar
• trueWorld War II
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands -- Fiction
• true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
• true1990s -- 1990 -- 1999
• trueAnti-Nazi movement
• trueDeception
• England -- Fiction
• England -- Fiction
• trueFamily and war
• trueFear in men
• trueGranddaughters
• Grandfathers -- Fiction
• Grandfathers -- Fiction
• trueGuilt
• Guilt -- Fiction
• Guilt -- Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• trueLove stories
• trueMilitary occupation

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueLove stories
• trueParallel narratives

Language

eng

Summary

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family

Theme

• trueLove in wartime

Storyline

• trueIntricately plotted

Tone

• trueSuspenseful
• trueMoving
• trueAtmospheric

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueDescriptive

Character

• trueWell-developed

Award

• Carnegie Medal, 2005.
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2007
• School Library Journal Best Books: 2007
• USBBY Outstanding International Book, 2008.
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2008
• School Library Journal Best Books, 2007.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 780
• 780L

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.P3564

LC item number

Tam 2007

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

780

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 6

Reading level

5.1

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

adolescent