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Atlantic Ocean Baltic Sea Baltic Sea Fiction Berlin (Germany) History 1945-1990 Juvenile fiction Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 Juvenile fiction Escapes Families Germany (East) Juvenile fiction Families Germany Berlin Juvenile fiction Germany (East) Long distance swimming TeenagersLinke, Dorit
Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINNielsen, Jennifer A.
Summary: When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015