Beyond the blue border / by Dorit Linke ; [translated by Elisabeth Lauffer].
Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany--Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real, but the two teenagers are desperate to escape their lives in the East.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781623541774
- ISBN: 1623541778
- Physical Description: 327 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2021]
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 12 . Charlesbridge. HL560L Lexile Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 79 (high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile |
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Genre: | Young adult fiction. Historical fiction. |
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Beyond the Blue Border
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Summary
Beyond the Blue Border
Hanna and Andreas will do anything to leave oppressive East Germany behind. There's one escape route open to them, but can they survive it? Hanna and Andreas have always been friends. When they're expelled from school for activism directly challenging the socialist state in East Germany, they end up doing factory work. But what kind of life do they have to look forward to without education or opportunity? Especially when they aren't allowed a voice? The choice to risk imprisonment or death by escaping to the democratic West seems like a risk worth taking. They set out to swim twenty-five hours across the choppy waters of the Baltic Sea. Linke's storytelling achieves a delicate balance between heightened moments of danger--searchlights, jellyfish, a Russian helicopter, a violent summer storm--and the monotony, ineffable fatigue, physical pain, cramping, fear, and hope that fill the rest of the journey. A memorable tale of two people risking all for a chance at freedom.