Nielsen, Jennifer A. A Night Divided, 336 pages. Scholastic Press, August 2015. $17. Content:
G (one undescribed death).
Friends warned Gerta and her family that the Russians were
up to something.; they should escape to the West now. Her father and a brother head off to find an
apartment and job possibilities, but while they are gone, the barbed wire goes
up, followed quickly by The Wall and the Death Zone, dividing East and West
Berlin fairly definitively. For four
years, the family members have no contact, until Gerta sees her brother and
then her father on a high platform across the wall. Then a
secret message leads Gerta and Fritz to realize that their father wants
them to work on a tunnel. How can two children
complete such a task and keep it secret from neighbor snitches, well-meaning
friends, and their own mother?
I hope Nielsen keeps on writing historical fiction. She has quite the talent for it. There are a few books on the topic of Berlin
in the 1960’s, but this is an excellent addition to any well rounded historical
fiction collection.
MS – ADVISABLE.
Cindy, Library Teacher
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