To commemorate the 55th anniversary of the creation of the Berlin Wall, a historically accurate and action-filled compilation of three generations who grew up around the Berlin Wall, from WWII when it was created, to life behind the wall, to the time it was brought down. Marking the 55th anniversary of the creation of the Berlin Wall, this epic tale extends across generations and unfolds against the backdrop of a dangerous Cold War Berlin. This historically accurate, action-packed, 3-books-in-one features teens and their family's struggle living in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, from its creation after WWII, to life behind the wall during the Cold War, to the Wall's ultimate and final destruction. Both educational and exciting, Life Behind the Wall is a great choice for middle readers at home or school. Titles include: Candy Bombers Beetle Bunker Smuggler's Treasure
Life Behind the Great Wall
In the tradition of the great narrative storytellers, Andrei Cherny recounts the exhilarating saga of the unlikely men who made the Berlin Airlift one of the great military and humanitarian successes of American history. “What an exciting ...
This is the story of a young girl aspiring to the heights of her vocation under the Cistercian Rule of Saint Benedict.
In ‘the most humane and sensitive way’ (J.M. Coetzee) Funder tells the true stories of four people who had the extraordinary courage to refuse to collaborate with the Stasi, and the price they paid.
If you enjoyed Candy Bombers, be sure to check out the other books in the Wall Trilogy that continue the story: Beetle Bunker and Smuggler’s Treasure
In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.
He looked puzzled. “She always works Mondays.” But Frau Ziegler, the supervising nurse, didn't even look up. She just chewed on the end of her pencil and flipped open a notebook. Sabine noticed the woman's knuckles had turned white, ...
Connie Steinman connects and inspires James and his friends who are credit deficient to graduate! This is a book about teaching, learning, and self-reliance. It contains a lesson for all of us.
This book supplements that record with a history written from the micro level, detailing what it was like to live in that society with the advantages of both an insider's and an outsider's perspectives.
She must decide what she really believes and whom she really trusts. An exciting novel for middle-grade readers, Behind the Bedroom Wall teaches tolerance and understanding while exploring why Nazism held so many in its deadly thrall.