It is August 1961 in Communist-controlled East Berlin, home of young teen Franz Mu?ller. Franz's father is working across the border in democratic West Berlin. But the East German government has seen that many workers from East Berlin have not been returning--and they take sudden action. Franz awakens to find that his city has been walled in overnight, throwing his entire family into chaos.
Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman and her animals, a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian ...
Developing literacy in second-language learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on language-minority children and youth. Mahway, NJ: Laurence Earlbaum and Associates. Bunch, G. C., Kibler, A., & Pimentel, S. (2013, April).
"A quite ordinary middle-aged woman ... awakens to find she is the last living human being"--Back cover.
The River and the Wall is both a wild adventure on a spectacular river and a sobering commentary on the realities of walling it off.
A foolish knight is certain that his side of the wall is the safe side in this clever, amusingly meta picture book by the acclaimed creator of It's Only Stanley There's a wall in the middle of the book, and our hero--a young knight--is sure ...
A powerful, searing story of a divided city - where one boy strays on to the wrong side of the wall, and finds his life changed for ever . . .
The wall of hope has raised $25 million over the last decade. He uses Nehemiah and his story from the old testament as an inspiration to build the wall.
Thanks to hundreds of interviews with Mexican deportees, this book puts a real face on discussions of immigration and border policies--Provided by publisher.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize "Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." —Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around ...
But when Mithila tries to cross the Wall, every power in Sumer comes together to stop her. To break the rules is to risk all of civilization collapsing. But to follow them is to never know: who built the Wall? Why?