Escape from East Berlin

Title
Escape from East Berlin

Personal Author EPSB
Andy, Marino

Summary
December, 1961 - Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East - with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side. January, 1989 - Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Kurt, a young East Berliner, often wonders what those living on the other side must think of their unseen neighbors. Do they hate the people of East Germany as completely as Kurt has been instructed to hate them?

Year Published
2022

Physical Description
167 pages ; 19 cm

Subject
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 -- Fiction.
 
Exiles -- Fiction.
 
Reunions -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.

Summary
December, 1961 - Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East - with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side. January, 1989 - Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Kurt, a young East Berliner, often wonders what those living on the other side must think of their unseen neighbors. Do they hate the people of East Germany as completely as Kurt has been instructed to hate them?

ISBN
9781338832044

Publisher
New York : Scholastic Inc., [2022]
 
©2022


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Kate ChegwinFIC MARBook30574000616563Fiction