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.
Related websites
- Author's website [http://www.dansmithbooks.com/]
- Author's X account [https://twitter.com/dansmithauthor]
- Publisher's website [https://www.scholastic.co.uk/]
- Interview of author YouTube
Related books
Other books by the author:
- The terror of Hilltop House (2023)
- Nisha’s war (2022)
- The horror of Dunwick Farm (2022)
- The beast of Harwood Forest (2021)
- The invasion of crooked oak (2020)
- She wolf (2019)
- Boy X (2016)
- My brother's secret (2014)
- My friend the enemy (2013)
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