Martha Attema

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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1997
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Book List in Order: 8 titles

  • A Light in the Dunes

    Just like the woman in the legend that haunts her and after whom she is named, fourteen-year-old Rikst de Bruin loves beachcombing after the winter storms that bring treasures to the shores of the island where she lives. Then one day she and her frie...

  • A Time to Choose

    The year is 1944. Sixteen-year-old Johannes van der Meer's homeland has been occupied by the Nazis for four long years. While enduring food shortages and nightly air raids, the people of the Netherlands wait patiently for the liberation they know wil...

  • Daughter of Light

    Daughter of Light martha attema Sidney Taylor Book Award Notable Book from the Association of Jewish Libraries CCBC Our Choice 2002 In the darkest days of WWII, nine-year-old Ria is determined that her mother give birth in a home filled with light. D...

  • When the War Is over

  • Hero

    Els is a courier, a girl who takes Jewish children on the back of her bike to safety on farms in Friesland. When she leaves Isaak, disguised as Jan, at a farmhouse with kind people, he is miserable until he makes friends with a beautiful black horse,...

  • The Paper Wagon

    The rooster has been kidnapped by the fox. What is the little hen to do? Go to the shed and build a paper wagon, that's what. With two Herculean mice in place of horses, the little hen heads for the fox's house deep in the forest. On the way,...

  • Awesome Wildlife Defenders

    AWESOME WILDLIFE DEFENDERS, a young reader novel, is the story of eleven-year-old Rebecca, who is struggling with panic attacks. Life becomes complicated when her eccentric class teacher teams her up with her Indigenous classmate, Cedar, on a project...

  • When the Dikes Breached

    For sixteen-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 control...



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Martha Attema has published 8 books.

Martha Attema does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, When the Dikes Breached, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Martha Attema, A Light in the Dunes, was published in September 1997.

No. Martha Attema does not write books in series.
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