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Beyond the Blue Border historical fiction Japanese American Kids Behind BarbedBy: Dorit Linke How far would you go for freedom? Hanna and Andreas have got to get out of East Germany. Stuck in dead end factory jobs after being expelled from school for "agitating against the state," they've got no guarantee of safety and no chance at a better future. The teens hatch a daring plan: swim over forty miles across the Baltic Sea from their hometown of Rostock to the West German town of Fehmarn. Their grueling twenty five hour journey