The Wall Series by Robert Elmer

In my previous post, I mentioned getting these books at the library. I read the first book in two hours last night, then started the second, and finished it this morning. I'm half way through the third now.

It's after WWII and east Germany has been taken over by the Russians. Thirteen-year-old Erich is trying to find food for his mother and Oma. His search leads him to a mystery his father left, a strange Christian American reporter soldier, dropping candy "bombs", and hair-raising escapes.

(Okay, the cover, as well as the title, make this book look weird, but don't judge a book by it's cover!=) Amazon description - Berlin, August 1961. Sabine lives in a cramped apartment with her grandmother, mother, and older half-brother, Erich, in East Berlin where neighbors spy on each other, books are forbidden, and sometimes people disappear in the middle of the night...to the west. When Sabine discovers a forgotten underground bunker, she first uses it to escape her crowded home. After the Soviets build a barrier through the middle of Berlin, Sabine thinks of a new use for the Bunker. Could it take her family under the Wall to freedom? Or are their lives in more danger than ever?

Amazon Description - Berlin, spring 1989. Life is good in West Germany, and even the Cold War seems to be thawing in the warmer weather. As Liesl works on a class project about the history of the wall, she stumbles onto a startling secret no one will talk about. Will she ever learn the whole story? FYI There's one part in this book where the boy is disrespectful to his father.