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What Was the Berlin Wall? (What Was?)

by Nico Medina (Author) Stephen Marchesi (Illustrator)

What Was the Berlin Wall? (What Was?)

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Reading Level: 4^th − 5^th Grade

Series: What Was?

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The Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989. Now readers can find out why it was built in the first place; and what it meant for Berliners living on either side of it. Here's the fascinating story of a city divided. In 1961, overnight a concrete border went up, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts - East and West. . The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to post-WWII politics and the Cold War Era when the United States and the USSR were enemies, always on the verge of war. The wall meant that no one from Communist East Berlin could travel to West Berlin, a free, democratic area. Of course that didn't stop thousands from trying to breech the wall - more than one hundred of them dying in the attempt. (One East Berliner actually ziplined to freedom!) Author Nico Medina explains the spy-vs-spy politics of the time as well as what has happened since the removal of one of the most divisive landmarks in modern history.

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Nico Medina is the author of Where Is Mount Everest? and Where Is Alcatraz? and three books in the Who Was? series.

Classification

Non-fiction

ISBN-13

9781524789671

Lexile Measure

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Guided Reading Level

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Publisher

Penguin Workshop

Publication date

September 24, 2019

Series

What Was?

BISAC categories

JNF025070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Europe
JNF043000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science | Politics & Government
JNF025260 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Symbols, Monuments, National Parks, Etc.

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