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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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A city divided. When the Berlin Wall goes up, Karin is on the wrong side of the city. Overnight, she's trapped under Soviet rule in unforgiving East Berlin and separated from her twin sister, Jutta. Two sisters torn apart. Karin and Jutta lead parallel lives for years, cut off by the Wall. But Karin finds one reason to keep going: Otto, the man who gives her hope, even amidst the brutal East German regime. One impossible choice ... When Jutta finds...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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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...
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Robert Harland novels volume 3
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English
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As East Germany collapses, a former Stasi agent is caught in the crossfire of international espionage in this “tour de force on par with John le Carré” (Library Journal, starred review).
Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award
September 1989. In the tense final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s Communist government is on the brink...
Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award
September 1989. In the tense final days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany’s Communist government is on the brink...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
500L
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English
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Summoned by the Queen of England to save the world once again, trusty kid spy Mac B. navigates secret tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall to retrieve cheat codes from an adversarial scientist only to find himself trapped in East Germany.
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English
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In 1986, Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world’s most visible symbol of hardline Communism and Cold War lore. They thought they were making a documentary on the community of tourists, soldiers, and West Berliners who lived in the seemingly eternal presence of the graffiti emblazoned eyesore...But in 1989, as the original...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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"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. Then, just a month ago, Marta's brother became a victim of schiessbefehl, the standing order to fire upon anyone who dared pass into the West. With her family and nation both fractured, Marta will soon be faced with a promising - but dangerous - opportunity....
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English
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"In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped...
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English
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"Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families, friends and lovers. Its creation, and its sudden collapse...
9) Going over
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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.
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Songs in the night volume 03
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English
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Book 3 in the Songs in the Night trilogyFollowing World War II, little has changed in Berlin. The Swastika has been replaced by the Hammer and Sickle, and the soldiers by secret police, but a life of daily oppression and fear remains. Inspired by the teachings of Joseph Schumacher, an unlikely coalition forms to sneak six disabled young people over the Berlin Wall, out of Communist East Germany. Once begun, two possible fates await them: freedom or...
11) Winter work
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is...
12) Over and out
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"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...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Da-Da-R is a wordplay on the irreverent Dada art movement of the 1920s and the German acronym for East Germany -- the DDR. The clowns are allowed to leave prison to sing for people outside. As they perform their...
15) The Berlin Wall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
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This title examines an important historic event-the Berlin Wall's division of the city of Berlin, Germany, from the building of the wall to its destruction. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores why the wall was built, what it was like living in a divided city, and why the wall was torn down. Also discussed is the political context behind the wall, including the events in Germany following World War II and the tensions between capitalism and communism...
17) Berliners
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HL 720L
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English
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A city divided. A family fractured. Two brothers caught between past and present. Berlin, 1961. Rudi Möser-Fleischmann is an aspiring photographer with dreams of greatness, but he can't hold a candle to his talented, charismatic twin brother Peter, an ambitious actor. With the sudden divorce of their parents, the brothers find themselves living in different sectors of a divided Berlin; the postwar partition strangely mirroring their broken family....
18) Walls
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English
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"In this edge-of-your-seat novel packed with historical photographs, two cousins divided by the Cold War must work together or risk loosing everything. Berlin, 1961. Drew is an army brat in West Berlin, where US soldiers like his dad hold a tiny outpost of democracy against Communist Russia and occupied East Germany. Drew's cousin Matthias has grown up across the city's border on streets ruled by secret police and anti-American propaganda. From enemy...
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English
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"In the middle of the twentieth century, in the middle of Eastern Europe, a young girl dreams of adventures. One day, a huge wall appears that separates East from West, and dreamer from dreams. No ladder is tall enough, no tunnel deep enough to get past that wall. But then a crack appears in the wall..."--
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