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Beyond the blue border  Cover Image Book Book

Beyond the blue border / by Dorit Linke ; [translated by Elisabeth Lauffer].

Linke, Dorit, 1971- (author.). Lauffer, Elisabeth, (translator.).

Summary:

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
Subject: Teenagers > Germany (East) > Juvenile fiction.
Long distance swimming > Juvenile fiction.
Escapes > Juvenile fiction.
Swimming > Juvenile fiction.
Germany (East) > History > Juvenile fiction.
Germany (East) > Juvenile fiction.
Baltic Sea > Juvenile fiction.
Germany (East) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Atlantic Ocean > Baltic Sea.
Germany (East)
Genre: Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Cass County.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center YA LIN 2021 (Text) 0002205471879 Young Adult Fiction Available -


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