After getting kicked out of school for voicing opposition to the communist East German government, teens Hanna and Andreas hatch a plan to escape their country by swimming twenty-five hours across the Baltic Sea to democratic West Germany. In their quest for freedom, they will face icy waters, helicopter searches, stinging jellyfish, physical exhaustion, storms, and drowning.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: marathon swimming, fiction, escapes, swimming, historical fiction, germany (east), history, fiction, baltic sea, historical fiction