About the Book: A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold)
With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family
divided overnight. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern
side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone
west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch
the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she cant help herself. She
sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens;
she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.
But one day,