TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nielsen,Jennifer A.
TI  - A night divided
SN  - 9780545682428
AV  - PZ7.N5673 Ni 2015
U1  - FIC NIE 23
KW  - Families
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
KW  - Berlin (Germany)
KW  - History
KW  - 1945-1990
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
KW  - sears
N1  - Ages 8-12; Accelerated Reader; 5.4; Reading Counts!; 5.3; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.4; 11.0; 176729; Reading Counts RC; 3-5; 5.3; 18; Quiz: 66457; Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; MG; 5.4; 11.0; 176729
N2  - 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 own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city. But one day, while on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. Then, when she receives a mysterious drawing, Gerta puts two and two together and concludes that her father wants Gerta and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?
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