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BOOK REVIEW: Smuggler's Treasures
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by: Barbara Warren Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Smuggler’s Treasures (The Wall Series) Author: Robert Elmer Publisher: Zonderkidz ISBN: 0310709458 Genre: Inspirational/Juvenile/Historical/Fiction
Berlin, 1989
Sabine is married to Willi and living in West Berlin. Life is good. They have a teenage daughter, Liesl. President Regan came to Berlin, speaking to thousands of West Germans in the Brandenburgplatz. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” But Liesl doesn’t believe it will happen. Her uncle Eric, her mother’s half-brother, still lives in East Berlin. He still works at the hospital. Occasionally Sabine and Liesl go through the border checkpoint, braving the guards, to see him, but he can never come to them.
Then Nick Wilder comes from America with his parents bringing news that devastates Liesl and her family.
Robert Elmer’s three volume series of The Wall should be required reading for all teenagers. The young people in these stories show extraordinary courage in the face of terrible danger. Time throws a veil over the past, so that we only remember dimly the suffering and sacrifice of those who lived before. Some things in our history should never be forgotten. The Berlin Wall is one of those things. The knowledge should be passed from generation to generation so that we never forget. Books like Robert Elmer’s The Wall series help us to remember. |
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