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Tamar
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Front cover of first edition
Author Mal Peet
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Young adult historical novel, war novel (underground)
Publisher Walker Books
Publication date
3 October 2005
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 432 pp (first edition)
ISBN 978-0-7445-6570-6
OCLC 61129424
LC Class PZ7.P3564 Tam 2007

Tamar is a young-adult novel by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2005. Within a 1995 frame story, where a 15-year-old girl inherits papers and other mementos from her deceased grandfather, it is set in the occupied Netherlands near the end of the Second World War; there it features two British-trained Dutch agents and the resistance to German occupation of the Netherlands. The novel interweaves past and present to show the lasting effects of war and the passions it arouses.

Peet won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. According to WorldCat, it is his work most widely held in participating libraries.

Walker's U.S. division Candlewick Press published the first North American edition in February 2007, entitled Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal.

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