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BOOK REVIEW: Candy Bombers
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Candy Bombers (The Wall Series) Author: Robert Elmer Publisher: Zonderkidz ISBN: 0310709431 Genre: Inspirational/Juvenile/Historical/Fiction
Berlin, Spring 1948, the war is over and Germany is divided. The Soviets have blockaded the citizens of East Germany behind an Iron Curtain.
Teenagers, Eric and Katarina are cousins, struggling to help their families survive. The Soviets are starving the citizens of Berlin. Eric sneaks into the American Airbase looking for food. He didn’t expect much, flour, potatoes, dried fruit. Although he is caught and warned not to come back, he can’t stay away.
Eric and Katarina go back to the American Airbase and something happens that affects their lives for years to come.
In The Candy Bombers, Robert Elmer has created an awareness in the reader of what it was like to be a teenager in Cold War Berlin. He reminds his reader of the importance of the massive twenty-four hour, seven days a week air food supply line provided by Britain, France and the U.S., known as the Berlin Airlift. He also tells about the actual gum and candy drops started by an American flyer.
Robert Elmer’s The Candy Bomber is an exciting story about teenagers set in an important historical time that isn’t taught as much as it should be.
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