Escape to West Berlin (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Escape to West Berlin Saturday, August 8 2009.

• The advent of the Wall Heidi's thirteenth birthday is coming up, but she's disappointed -- her mother is pregnant and refuses to make the annual summer visit to Heidi's grandmother. What's more, it's 1961 and the government is cracking down on border crossers, people who work in the West but live in the East. Heidi's father is a border crosser, and her best friend, Petra, has been forbidden to see Heidi until her father finds a new job in East Berlin. Heidi feels betrayed. Then, as political tension mounts, her parents tell her they are secretly moving West, and Heidi must travel alone to get her grandmother. But how can she do it without Petra's help? The author captures all the terror of the time in her gripping story of an indomitable heroine who steals across the Berlin border by facing her greatest fear.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Escape to West Berlin Thursday, July 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: Maurine F. Dahlberg: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Escape to West Berlin Thursday, July 16 2009.

• "I KNOW THE TWO OF YOU CAN'T GO, but I can go by myself," I whispered.