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.
- ISBN: 9781623541774
- Author: Linke, Dorit
- Illustrator: Lauffer, Elisabeth
- Published: 2021 , Charlesbridge Teen
- Themes: Emigration and immigration, Escape, Social Activism
- Descriptors: Europe, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 320