Cloud and Wallfish

Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems.

Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why -- not because of his Astonishing Stutter, but because asking questions is against the newly instated rules. (Rule Number Two: Don't talk about serious things indoors, because Rule Number One: They will always be listening). As Noah--now "Jonah Brown"--and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside him: Who, exactly, is listening -- and why? When did his mother become fluent in so many languages? And what really happened to the parents of his only friend, Cloud-Claudia, the lonely girl who lives downstairs? In an intricately plotted novel full of espionage and intrigue, friendship and family, Anne Nesbet cracks history wide open and gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be an outsider in a world that's impossible to understand.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 09/02/2016
ISBN: 9780763688035
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2016
Publishers Weekly 08/22/2016
School Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 141
Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 111
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2016
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2016 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2016 pg. 83
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2017 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 184765 / Cloud and Wallfish
Reading Level: 5.8 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 12