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Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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.
2) Berliners
Author
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
5) 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.
8) Wall
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built.
9) Over and out
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Aware of the many whose families have been divided. Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help East Germans escape across Berlin Wall and into the West. Bob Inama, a soldier in the US Army, is stationed in West Germany. He's glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend...
11) Stasi child
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it - the girl was evidently trying to escape from West Berlin. As a member of the People's Police, Müller's power in East Germany only stretches so far. The Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, assures her the case is closed,...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1989, and the Berlin Wall is coming down. The East German secret police, the Stasi, are shredding documents in a desperate effort to hide the secrets they have been collecting on their own people for forty years. They have no idea that only a few years later a group of people will come together to piece all of the shredded documents back together. Annie O'Shea is one of those people. She is a puzzle person. But as the pieces come together,...
14) Going over
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the Berlin Wall, from its construction in 1961 to the opening in 1989. Examines the lives of ordinary citizens caught in the politics of the Cold War, the extraordinary efforts of East Berliners to cross to the West, and the birth of the freedom movement in East Germany's Protestant Church.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
One morning in 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed wire became a 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the Cold War that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the fault line between East and West on which rested the fate...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. --Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a book based on the podcast series, a broadcast journalist tells the unbelievable true story of 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph, who, in 1961, set out to build an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall and was faced with many obstacles before freeing 29 people.
19) The Berlin Wall
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses why the Berlin Wall was built, what life was like in a divided city, and why it was torn down, and explores the political context behind the wall.
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