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Nine Open Arms
Negen Open Armen. English
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When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable o...
When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
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- Creator
- Benny Lindelauf ; translated from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen ; jacket and interior art by Dasha Tolstikova
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First American edition
- New York : Enchanted Lion Books, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- 256 pages : map ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781592701469, 1592701469
- OCLC
- ocn879851561
- "First published in 2004 in Dutch in the Netherlands by Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V. as Negen Open Armen."
Subjects
- Families -- Juvenile fiction.
- Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
- Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
- Romanies -- Juvenile fiction.
- Netherlands -- History -- Wilhelmina, 1898-1948 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Netherlands -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction.
- Family life -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
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- Grandmothers -- Fiction.
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- Single-parent families -- Fiction.
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- Romanies -- Fiction.
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- Netherlands -- History -- Wilhelmina, 1898-1948 -- Fiction.
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- Netherlands -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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