Over and Out

Grades: 4 - 7

Twelve-year-old Sophie lives in Communist East Berlin during the Cold War, where the Stasi police watch everyone.  She and her best friend Katrina pass by the infamous Berlin Wall every day, dreaming up ways to get out of East Berlin.  When the Stasi tells Sophie to spy on her neighbor or else her mother will be put in a facility for the disabled, the two best friends display great courage and ingenuity in figuring out how to do just that. A gripping historical novel.