Juvenile nonfiction
Decades after the walls between East and West Germany were torn down it can be hard for younger readers to imagine the desperation of many people to escape the poverty and regimentation of the East and the dire risks they took in doing so. Luckily Kristen Fulton brings a real life attempt to life in Flight For Freedom.
Peter, Fulton's protagonist, finds a picture of a hot air balloon in his house. He listens as his parents and their best friends make an escape plan. They must execute it with total stealth. Government spies are everywhere. What seems like a lot of time passes.
Then one night Peter's parents wake him up. They go to a remote location where the adults set up the homemade balloon. Just as the rope attaching it to the ground is cut sirens break the night stillness.
On a purrrsonal note, we finally have our Christmas tree. Eugene brought it home from his wood lot today. He has to get some more lights. Then I'll be able to start decorating it. (Jules)
We haz our tree! We haz our tree! (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to Eugene.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway
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