"When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall--but even to the balloon makers, Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything--including her only way home--to stop the process"--Amazon.com.
year: 2017
call number/section: 1000, 1
subjects: magic, fiction, conspiracies, teenage girls, juvenile fiction, berlin (germany), history, fiction, juvenile fiction, time-travel fiction, fantasy fiction, time travel, love stories, berlin wall, berlin, germany, 1961-1989, fantasy fiction, germany, love stories
Editions
Locke, Katherine
Albert Whitman & Co. (2017)
"When sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin, she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wall--but even to the balloon makers, Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history, Ellie must risk everything--including her only way home--to stop the process"--Amazon.com.
Schools: 2
Locke, Katherine
After Ellie Baum chases a red balloon while on a trip to the Berlin Wall Memorial, she is magically transported back to 1988 where she meets an underground guild who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the wall. She soon learns that dark forces are trying to manipulate magic to alter history, and Ellie and the guild must find a way to stop them even if it means losing her only way back to her own time.
Schools: 13