The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss
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appears in Teen & Young Adult, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week tulips in the spring, roses in the summer stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish and in great d...
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appears in Teen & Young Adult, Teen & Young Adult, and Adult.
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