Nine Open Arms /
Lindelauf, Benny, 1964-
Nine Open Arms / Benny Lindelauf ; translated from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen ; jacket and interior art by Dasha Tolstikova. - First American edition. - 256 pages : map ; 22 cm
"First published in 2004 in Dutch in the Netherlands by Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V. as Negen Open Armen."
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.
1592701469 9781592701469
2014014977
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
Romanies--Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families--Juvenile fiction.
Family life--Netherlands--Fiction.
Netherlands--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
Netherlands--History--Wilhelmina, 1898-1948--Juvenile fiction.
Nine Open Arms / Benny Lindelauf ; translated from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen ; jacket and interior art by Dasha Tolstikova. - First American edition. - 256 pages : map ; 22 cm
"First published in 2004 in Dutch in the Netherlands by Em. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V. as Negen Open Armen."
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.
1592701469 9781592701469
2014014977
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers--Juvenile fiction.
Romanies--Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families--Juvenile fiction.
Family life--Netherlands--Fiction.
Netherlands--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
Netherlands--History--Wilhelmina, 1898-1948--Juvenile fiction.