Author: Dan Smith
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9781912626762

About the book

Set in Berlin in 1961, and told through journal entries and letters, this is a high-stakes adventure, set during the Cold War. It centres on 2 cousins, Anja and Monika who live opposite each other. They play together every day, with Otto the cat. One night they wake up to bangs and shouts. Soldiers are building a huge, barbed wire fence between them. A terrible forever wall hat gets longer and higher until it divides the whole city. On the East side, Monika is scared - neighbours are becoming spies and there are secret police everywhere. It's Anja who spots that Otto has found a way across. If he can visit Monika, then perhaps she can too. But Anja gets trapped and there's no safe way back.

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  • She wolf (2019)
  • Boy X (2016)
  • My brother's secret (2014)
  • My friend the enemy (2013)

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