Attema, Martha
Summary: "For 16-year-old Klara, a devastating flood reveals a dark family secret. It is February 1953 in the Netherlands and Klara is expected to marry the son of a prominent farmer. In this small island community, steeped in tradition, the Church controls the lives of its citizens but Klara longs to escape. When a spring tide merges with a brutal storm it causes the dikes to breach, unleashing death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ronsdale Press 2023
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Summary: His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with thelocal bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2017