A review by s_hay
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet

3.0

When both of his parents pick Noah up from school one day they inform him that they are leaving for an immediate vacation to Germany. But it is 1989 and the Germany that they are heading to is East Germany and they will have to do some pretending for the government to let them in - such as Noah is now Jonah, his birthday is no longer in March, and he is still ten. 'Jonah' finds East Berlin to be rather boring. He is not permitted to go to school and the few kids he meets are cruel to him because if his extreme stutter. At last he makes a friend in the girl living in an apartment below him, but things are not as they seem. Together they try to brighten a dreary place and Jonah seeks to figure out what it is that his mother is actually doing in Berlin.
Fiction off set with non-fiction snippets about the Cold War era in Berlin.
Good for ages 10 and up.