netherlands

In 1637, Adam Windjammer, now sixteen years old, confronts danger in the New World as he tries to restore his family's fortune, while fourteen-year-old Jade Van Helson struggles in Amsterdam against her moneylender father's decree that she marry a wealthy, eldery Englishman.

A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.

Describes many things that originally came from the Netherlands, including inventions, fashion, customs and holidays, sports, food, animals, and words.

After working hard to convince his father, Rembrandt van Rijn, to teach him how to draw, Titus finally gets his wish.

A storm brings a mermaid to a Dutch family that puts her to work for them; but the young son Hansy longs to help her return to her home in the sea.