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Postcards from No Man's Land Paperback - 2007

by Aidan Chambers

Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Hisplan is to go to Amsterdam to explore the city and honor hisgrandfather who died there during World War II. But nothinggoes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love or to face questionsabout his sexuality. Most of all, he isn't prepared to hearwhat Geertrui, the woman who nursed his grandfather duringthe war, has to say. It seems that in the midst of terrible danger,Geertrui and Jacob's grandfather's time together blossomed intosomething more. Geertrui and Jacob live worlds apart, but theirvoices blend together to tell one story a story that transcendstime and place and war. This extraordinary Printz-winning novel,now available in a deluxe edition with French flaps, rough-frontpaper, and bonus material including a new forward by the author,will be treasured for years to come.


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Seventeen-year-old Jacob Todd is about to discover himself. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob isn't prepared for love--or to face questions about his sexuality. Most of all, he isn't prepared to hear what Geertrui, the woman who nursed his grandfather during the war, has to say about their relationship. Geertrui was always known as Jacob's grandfather's kind and generous nurse. But it seems that in the midst of terrible danger, Geertrui and his grandfather's time together blossomed into something more than a girl caring for a wounded soldier. And like Jacob, Geertrui was not prepared. Geertrui and Jacob live worlds apart, but their voices blend together to tell one story--a story that transcends time and place and war. By turns moving, vulnerable, and thrilling, this extraordinary novel takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery.

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  • Title Postcards from No Man's Land
  • Author Aidan Chambers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Speak
  • Date January 11, 2007
  • ISBN 9780142407882 / 0142407887
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.54 x 0.91 in (20.93 x 14.07 x 2.31 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Reading level 900
  • Library of Congress subjects Coming of age, Grandmothers
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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...truly memorable novelthey read it, but also where and when they read it. (The Horn Book, starred review)END

About the author

Aidan Chambers is an author of novels and plays. Born in the north of England, he worked as a high school teacher for eleven years, during which time he was also a monk for seven years, before he left both teaching and the monastery to establish himself as a full-time author. He has written for many newspapers and journals as well as television and radio, and is well known as a writer and lecturer on the nature and value of reading and literature. In 1969 he and his American wife Nancy founded Thimble Press, which publishes books about children's literature and the magazine 'SIGNAL: Approaches to Children's Books', internationally recognized as one of the most important in its field. His books are published in many languages. Among other prizes, his novel Postcards From No Man's Land was honored with the Carnegie Medal, Britain's most prestigious recognition for children's and youth literature, and the Italian Andersen Award. He is also the recipient of The Children's Literature Association Award for excellence in literary criticism, and the British Eleanor Farjeon Award for outstanding services to children's books. He is currently writing the sixth and last of his youth novels which make a family Sequence, a body of work he describes on the BOOKS page of his Web site.
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