netherlands

An American girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland resents the presence of a German soldier quartered in her grandparents' home until the night she tries to hide part of the town's treasured clock mechanism.

Introduces the history, family life, geography, government, economy, and education of the Netherlands.

The people in a little town in Holland try to bring storks to nest in their village.

A history of the Netherlands from its earliest settlements to the twenty-first century, focusing on the nation's political, economic, cultural, and social development.

Provides an overview of the history, land, plants and animals, people, economy, cities, transportation, government, holidays and festivals, and sports and culture of the Netherlands, and includes a glossary, Web site resources for more information, a time line, and an index.

Tells the story of the Dutch colony known as New Netherland and includes information on related topics and figures such as seventeenth-century Dutch ships, the Hudson River, Native Americans, and Peter Stuyvesant.

A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during World War II.

Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of the Netherlands.

In 1687 young Sietze Hemmes sets in motion the rescue of a floundering ship off the coast of a Dutch island in the North Sea, and three hundred years later similar rescues are still taking place.

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.