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does anyone remember this book?
I have tried all the sources I have available to me at home to find this book (including WorldCat), and have come up dry.
When I was a kid, I inherited a large collection of Scholastic Book Club books from my older sisters. Among them was a fictionalized account of one farm family's survival of the devastating 1953 flood in the Netherlands, how the water crept higher and higher, gradually forcing them to the roof of their house, and how they were rescued in what amounted to the nick of time. I can tell you it was probably published in the late 1950s or early 1960s. It is not Jan de Hartog's The Little Ark (the closest I could find on WorldCat). It's a middle-grade children's chapter book. I don't know anything else about it, not author nor title nor anything else.
I would love to get my hands on this book again. If you recognize it, please tell me. If you are a member of Fiction-L, could I prevail upon you to post this question there for me? I don't want to rejoin that high-traffic list just for this one question, although I probably will if no one here takes pity on me [wry g].
Help?
ETA: Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nlbarber, the book has been identified as The Tide in the Attic, by Aleid Van Rhinjn. Not only that, she has a copy she's willing to send me [g]. Thank you, Nancy!
When I was a kid, I inherited a large collection of Scholastic Book Club books from my older sisters. Among them was a fictionalized account of one farm family's survival of the devastating 1953 flood in the Netherlands, how the water crept higher and higher, gradually forcing them to the roof of their house, and how they were rescued in what amounted to the nick of time. I can tell you it was probably published in the late 1950s or early 1960s. It is not Jan de Hartog's The Little Ark (the closest I could find on WorldCat). It's a middle-grade children's chapter book. I don't know anything else about it, not author nor title nor anything else.
I would love to get my hands on this book again. If you recognize it, please tell me. If you are a member of Fiction-L, could I prevail upon you to post this question there for me? I don't want to rejoin that high-traffic list just for this one question, although I probably will if no one here takes pity on me [wry g].
Help?
ETA: Thanks to
nlbarber, the book has been identified as The Tide in the Attic, by Aleid Van Rhinjn. Not only that, she has a copy she's willing to send me [g]. Thank you, Nancy!