Beetle Bunker

by Robert Elmer

The Wall (2)

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Middle-school readers ages 8-12 can experience a story of action and adventure in Beetle Bunker, book 2 in the Wall Trilogy series which presents historically accurate fiction that brings the past to life in a kid-friendly way. In 1961 East Berlin, Sabine discovers a forgotten underground bunker that could possibly take her family under the wall to West Berlin and freedom ... if they can find a way to get her across.

Beetle Bunker is perfect for:

  • kids interested in stories about spies,
show more mysteries, adventure, and friendship
  • providing a fun and interesting series that helps readers 8-12 understand history in a real and understandable way
  • homeschool or school libraries
  • back to school reading, birthdays, and holiday gifts
  • In Beetle Bunker, Sabine lives in 1960s East Berlin, where neighbors spy on each other, books are forbidden, and people sometimes disappear in the middle of the night ... to the west side of the Berlin Wall. When Sabine discovers a forgotten underground bunker, she first uses it to escape her crowded home and comments on her physical disability, then thinks of a new use for the bunker. Could it take her family under the wall to freedom?

    If you enjoyed Beetle Bunker, be sure to check out the other books in the Wall Trilogy for the entire story: Candy Bombers and Smuggler's Treasure

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    84+ Works 6,915 Members
    Robert Elmer is the author of several other series for young adult readers, including Adventures Down Under and The Young Underground. He got his writing start as a newspaper reporter but has written everything from magazine columns to radio and TV commercials. Now he writes full-time from his home in rural northwest Washington state, where he show more lives with his wife, Ronda, and their three busy teenagers. show less

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    Canonical title
    Beetle Bunker
    Important places
    East Berlin, Germany

    Classifications

    Genres
    Kids, Fiction and Literature, Tween
    DDC/MDS
    813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
    LCC
    PZ7 .E4794 .BLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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    ISBNs
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