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BOOK REVIEW: Beetle Bunker
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Beetle Bunker (The Wall Series) Author: Robert Elmer Publisher: Zonderkidz ISBN: 031070944X Genre: Inspirational/Juvenile/Historical/Fiction
Berlin, August 1961
Eric is grown now and working in a hospital in East Berlin. Sabine, his teenage half-sister, is crippled from polio. Life is hard and food is scarce. Neighbors spy on each other. Then the Soviets build the wall, a structure of concrete and barbwire, sealing off all interaction between east and west.
Sabine falls into an underground bunker and believes it could become a tunnel taking her family to freedom. She makes friends with Willi Stumpff, a boy about her age, and they make their plans. Will they be able to save their families, or are they in more danger than every before?
Beetle Bunker brings home to the reader the desperation felt by those who lived in the Soviet section of East Berlin. U.S. President, John F. Kennedy made his famous speech, saying “I am a Berliner,” but still the wall stood. The Berlin Wall was a despicable structure, dividing families and destroying personal freedom. It also drives home the point that for God there are no walls. |
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