Early one morning a hen and a rooster are making a pot of soup. While stirring the soup the rooster falls into the boiling hot soup. The little hen drags him outside on the front lawn. But as the rooster is lying very still to dry his feathers, a big red fox comes along and steals the rooster.

What is the little hen to do? She goes to the shed and builds a paper wagon. When the wagon is finished, she harnesses two white mice and off they go on their way to the fox's house. Will they come in time to save the rooster from the fox?

During the last winter of World War II, Izaak must leave his mother and his hiding place in Amsterdam. A young girl takes him on her bike to a farm in Friesland, in the northern part of the Netherlands. His name is changed to Jan. For the duration of the war he stays with the farmer and his family. Izaak is scared and miserable until he meets the black stallion Hero. Hero is also wanted by the Germans. On the eve of the liberation, the Germans come for Hero. It is Izaak who comes with a plan to save the horse.

Sixteen-year old Janke Visser hates the Nazis. As the war progresses, she becomes involved with the resistance movement. When the members of the underground movement begin to trust her, her assignments become more dangerous. Her father, older brother and best friend Alie are also members of the Resistance.

Janke's mother however becomes more nervous, when first her son and later her husband need to go into hiding.

Fueled by hatred for the enemy Janke is determined to fight them. And then she meets Helmut, a young German soldier who doesn't fit his uniform.

During a dangerous operation, Janke is captured and interrogated. Her fate seems sealed.

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During the cold winter of 1944, the Germans cut the electricity in the small town in the Netherlands, where nine-year old Ria lives with her family. The war has lasted almost five years. Her father is in hiding, and her best friend Rachel, and her family have been taken away by the Germans. The local mayor is a Nazi sympathizer. Yet Ria is determined that her pregnant mother will give birth in a warm home filled with light. She comes up with a bold and dangerous plan.

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What happened to the body that Rikst and her friend, Bas, found on the beach one stormy afternoon? Was it really the ghost of Rixt, the witch of the bird sanctuary, she spotted from the beach? Why was Rikst named after the woman in the legend, who lured ships onto the beach in heavy storms? And what disturbing secret is her mother trying to hide from her? In her attempt to answer all these questions, Rikst and Bas set out on a journey of discovery and danger.

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In 1944, sixteen-year-old Johannes van der Meer's homeland has been occupied by the Germans for four long years. While enduring food shortages and nightly air raids, the people of the Netherlands wait for peace. Johannes is bitter, because his father is a Nazi collaborator. He wants to join the resistance, but needs to prove to the members of the underground movement that he can be trusted.

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