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The girl in the blue coat

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Amsterdam, 1943 Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black-market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the front line when the Germans invaded.

She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion.

But one day Hanneke gets a very unusual request. One of her regular customers asks her to find a girl.

A girl who has disappeared from the secret room in her house.

A Jewish girl . . . As she searches for clues Hanneke is drawn into a dangerous web of lies, secrets and mysteries.

Can she find the runaway before the Nazis do?Meticulously researched, intricately plotted and beautifully written, The Girl in the Blue Coat is the extraordinarily gripping novel from Monica Hesse. 'A gripping historical mystery' Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Macmillan Children's Books
1447295013 / 9781447295013
Paperback / softback
813.6
21/04/2016
United Kingdom
English
318 pages
20 cm
Quiz No: 231078, Points 11.00, Book Level 4.90,
Middle Years Plus - Key Stage 3 Learn More