The Wall
3 primary works
Book 1
Candy Bombers, book 1 in the Wall Trilogy series, follows cousins Erich and Katarina as they struggle to survive in a city still devastated by World War II.
Candy Bombers takes readers to Berlin, Germany in the spring of 1948. Teenage cousins Erich and Katarina are just trying to survive Soviet isolation and starvation when they see that Americans have food. Erich sneaks inside a U.S. cargo plane where he is caught by a sympathetic American sergeant who tries to befriend him. Though Erich has plenty of reasons to resent this man, in the end he must decide-should he cling to bitterness or learn to forgive?
Candy Bombers:
Is written for young readers aged 9-12Important historical fiction genreIs the first book in the Wall Trilogy seriesBook 2
Beetle Bunker, book 2 in the Wall Trilogy series, takes young readers and history buffs to Berlin, Germany in 1961.
In Beetle Bunker Sabine lives in East Berlin in 1961, where neighbors spy on each other, books are forbidden, and sometimes people disappear in the middle of the night ... to the west side of the Berlin Wall. When Sabine discovers a forgotten underground bunker, she first uses it to escape her crowded home then thinks of a new use for the bunker. Could it take her family under the Wall to freedom?
Beetle Bunker:
Is written for young readers aged 9-12Important historical fiction genreIs the second book in the Wall Trilogy seriesBook 3
