Kylee

 __Tamar__ __By Mal Peet__


 * When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before. His story is one of passionate love, jealousy, and tragedy set against the daily fear and casual horror of the Second World War — and unraveling it is about to transform Tamar’s life forever. **

**Publishers Weekly** - A complex tale about how war casualties can keep accruing, generations after the battle ends.

**Kirkus Reviews** -Readers will be torn: They'll want to slow down and savor the gorgeously detailed prose, but speed up to find out what happens next. Simply superb.

**VOYA** -Filled with compelling and deeply disturbing images of the horrors of war, the feelings and questions raised by this winner of the prestigious Carnegie Medal will remain with the reader long after the last page has been turned.

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""What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.""

""Sprawled, bloody, holding the pistol, he looked like a police photograph of a suicide. Dart went back to his chair and picked up the Smith and Wesson. Five minutes passed like a year.""

"" Remind me of this dad- who asked you to name me after your dad?""

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The first picture that I chose was a picture of my book. The picture on the front of my book just represents so much that the book is about. It shows Dart and Tamar parachuting into the Nazi controlled Holland. This was only one dangerous thing that Tamar and Dart had to do. It also shows them parachuting in the dark, where darkness is the main symbol in the whole picture. Mostly all of the dangerous things Dart had to do, like riding and old rusty bike back and forth from the barn to the asylum, had to take place in the darkness of night. After you finish reading the book, you will be surprised how much the cover of the book symbolizes a lot of things that take place in the book.

The second picture that I chose was of the Tamar River in Southwest England. Near the end of the book, the Tamar River was a major part in the book. After Tamar’s grandpa committed suicide he left a box on his bed with her name written on it. There were things in there and her cousin Yoyo and her both thought that he wanted her to go see the Tamar River. So they went and they looked at the river and stayed for about three days. At this same river is where the confrontation between Tamar and her father (who abandoned her mother and her when she was little for no reason) happened. It turned out that her grandfather had been to the river and did want her to see the river. Her grandfather wanted her to go so that she would see her father and get the real story of why he left.

The last picture that I picked was a picture of an old red barn. In the book, this is one of the safe places that all the radio transmissions that they had to do had taken place. This was the one place that they did those transmissions and never got raided. There were also some very bad memories in this barn. Especially near the very end of the book. Kopp, who was also a secret agent, had escaped out of the car that Dart and him were in near the red barn. It turned out that Tamar was in the barn doing a transmission and then he thought that he heard his girlfriend. But it turned out that it was only Kopp who had then shot Tamar because he thought that Tamar had betrayed him, but Kopp betrayed Tamar. Then his girlfriend shot Kopp. There were many events that took place in the red barn.

The video that I chose was the best video that YouTube had about the subject of my book. The people that are in the video talking were in WWII and were also in the Dutch Resistance. Dart and Tamar were a part of the Dutch Resistance. The opinions that were expressed in this video were also the same opinions of Dart and Tamar. They weren’t fighters like the people in this video were. Dart and Tamar were SOE Agents who were sent to Holland to spy on the Nazis and then they were to report all of their findings. This video tells stories about the Dutch Resistance first person, so you can only imagine how Dart and Tamar felt while reading this book. Also, it tells how dangerous Dart and Tamar’s missions were. They were some of the most dangerous missions that the Dutch resistance had assigned.  The first quote that I chose was ""What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange."" Tamar’s cousin Yoyo had told her this while they were sitting by the river. Tamar was getting very discouraged after one of the stops that they had made down by the Tamar River. She didn’t think that it was worth it to keep going, so Yoyo was trying to convince her, and he was right. When they got down to the bottom of the river, Tamar had thought it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. Also, if Yoyo hadn’t have said this Tamar would have went home and never met her dad. This was one of the most important quotes in the whole book.  The second quote that I chose was "Sprawled, bloody, holding the pistol, he looked like a police photograph of a suicide. Dart went back to his chair and picked up the Smith and Wesson. Five minutes passed like a year." This was the author explaining the sight of Kopp, an agent working with Dart and Tamar that had been shot by the Nazis. Kopp went and killed the head Nazi and after he got shot, he ended up at the asylum where Dart had been stationed. This is the point in the book where Kopp told Dart that he wanted to kill Tamar. He thought that Tamar had sold him out to the Nazi police, he was a dirty, rotten traitor and he deserved to die. This is right after Kopp was in the hospital and Dart was waiting for him to wake up so that him and Kopp could talk.  The third quote that I chose was “” Remind me dad- who was the one who asked to name me after your father?”” This was said by Tamar to her father, Jan. Jan had told Tamar and Yoyo about how his real father was killed and that her grandpa wasn’t her real grandpa and that he was the reason Jan left them without a reason. He told how he couldn’t call him dad; he would call him either Dart or William. Then Tamar got really angry about her father talking about her grandpa so she got mad, stormed out, and yelled this at her father.