![]() ![]() On their way home from the lesson, the girls witness a terrible crime in East Berlin, and save a Soviet soldier from drowning in the river. ![]() In the meantime, she and her friends are preparing for a chamber music ensemble contest in Paris when their teacher falls ill and tells them he can't be their chaperone on the trip from Berlin to France. As the novel opens, Jody will soon be moving back to the States since her father is retiring from the army. But she's made two really good friends in Berlin at the American school-Giselle and Vivian-and the three take music lessons together. Our narrator, Jody, is a army kid, used to moving constantly and not forming bonds that are too tight. "If we had known it would eventually involve the KGB, the French National Police, and the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, we would have left that body in the river and called the Polizei like an normal German citizen." In her second novel for young people, Rosanne Parry takes us back to Berlin in 1990, at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communism in Eastern Europe. ![]()
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