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Author
Series
Secret of the rose volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Michael and Sabina are reunited, but how will they ever cross the Iron Curtain?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In 1961 East Berlin, thirteen-year-old Heidi copes with the stress of a crisis with her best friend, government pressure on her father to leave his West Berlin job, her mother's pregnancy, and the ever-present threat of the closing of the border with West Berlin.
Author
Series
Rendezvous with destiny volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler's deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden, so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and desperate plan to send her daughter across the ocean to safety....
8) Over and out
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
"Sophie has spent her entire life behind the Berlin Wall, guarded by land mines, towers, and attack dogs. A science lover, Sophie dreams of becoming an inventor ... but that's unlikely in East Berlin, where the Stasi, the secret police, are always watching. Though she tries to avoid their notice, when her beloved neighbor is arrested, Sophie is called to her principal's office. There, a young Stasi officer asks Sophie if she'll spy on her neighbor...
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Six months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, three eighth-grade girls living on an American military base with their families in Berlin try to save a Russian soldier, who has been beaten and left for dead, by smuggling him to Paris, where they are goingto perform in a music competition.
10) Halinka
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
While living in a home for troubled girls in Germany just after World War II, twelve-year-old Halinka carefully hides her thoughts, feelings, and even her hopes.
Author
Series
Wall volume 3
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Berlin in 1989, the Cold War seems to be coming to an end but thirteen-year-old Liesl still feels trapped behind a wall as she tries to uncover a secret about her American grandfather, aided by a boy whose father is in the United States Air Force.
12) Wall
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Pr
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built.
13) Going over
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s Ada and Stefan are young, would-be lovers living on opposite sides of the Berlin Wall--Ada lives with her mother and grandmother and paints graffiti on the Wall, and Stefan lives with his grandmother in the East and dreams of escaping to the West.
14) Beetle bunker
Author
Series
Wall volume 2
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Sabine, an adventurer despite being crippled by polio, finds a forgotten bunker which might allow her, her family, and friends to reach freedom by tunneling under the Berlin Wall, or might lead to far greater danger.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a Cold War spy story set in 1989 Berlin, an American woman married to an East German must confront the truth behind his mysterious disappearance when she discovers he was a spy reporting back to an East German counterintelligence officer known as the Matchmaker. Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations...
16) Berlin game
Author
Series
Bernard Samson volume 1
Language
English
Description
Bernard Samson must help an undercover agent escape from Berlin but fears that leaks in British intelligence will undermine the attempt.
Brahms Four wants out. This alarming signal means that one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the Iron Curtain is urgently demanding safe passage to the West. It sends a ripple of panic through the highest levels of the British secret service. Appropriately, it has fallen to Bernard Samson,...
17) Walls
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Vera and Marya were brought up as good Soviets: obedient despite hardships of poverty and tragedy, committed to communist ideals, and loyal to Stalin. Several years after fighting on the Eastern front, both women find themselves deep in the mire of conflicts shaping a new world order in 1947 Berlin. When Marya, an interpreter, gets entangled in Vera's cryptic web of deceit and betrayal, she must make desperate choices to survive--and protect...