During World War II a young German girl, member of the Hitler Youth, joins her parents in occupied Amsterdam and comes to realize that the war is about more than national pride and destiny; for some it means starvation, separation from loved ones, and gas chambers.Twelve-year-old Janna joins her actor parents in the requisitioned Amsterdam home of the Van Arkels, and her discoveries concerning the evicted family and their occupied country conflict more and more with her Hitler Youth teachings

The Borrowed House

Van Stockum, Hilda

Children's Books

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Unhappy living with the people who had taken him from a Dublin orphanage, a young boy runs away and joins a group of gypsies.

Penengro

Dutch-Irish-American storyteller Hilda von Stockum has placed this adventure of resistance among the windmills of Holland during the Nazi occupation of World War II.

The Winged Watchman

Literature & Fiction

Canadian Summer: 2

Viking Juvenile

Cottage at Bantry: 2

The Mitchells

The Viking Press

<p>This is a story of the adventures of an old Teddy bear that was thrown out into the world and had many trials before he found a new home again. Little Old Bear is a touching and beautifully illustrated book geared to children aged five and over.</p>

Little Old Bear

Boissevain Books

Patsy and the Pup (From the preface by Elisabeth Marlin) A sweet puppy follows Patsy home one day, but Mother says she has to take it back to its owner. The mischievous pup is in no hurry to go home and drags Patsy into one hair-raising adventure after another on the way. The story is told with pace and humor and the pictures add amusing details for children to discover for themselves. This is a story that parents and children from 2 to 6 years old will enjoy reading together, over and over again.

Patsy and the Pup

Animals

BookSurge Publishing

<p>This is an exciting story set in Ireland in which an orphan, Rory, is adopted by a couple because he resembles their dead son. He runs away to escape from this uncomfortable situation, and meets and then lives with a group of gypsies. This book was close to the heart of the author, Hilda van Stockum, as she always sympathized with the outsiders in life. She was also close to nature and had a distrust of machinery, traits shared by the Romanies she wrote about.</p>

Growing Up & Facts of Life

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The Borrowed House

Penengro

The Winged Watchman

Canadian Summer: 2

Canadian Summer: 2

Cottage at Bantry: 2

The Mitchells

Little Old Bear

Patsy and the Pup

Penengro