Books like Escape to West Berlin by Maurine F. Dahlberg

A young boy’s journey to reunite his family across the Berlin Wall, set against the backdrop of the Cold War and the 1961–1989 division of Berlin.

Julie discovers the truth about her new friend Carla, set in San Francisco in 1977, focusing on the themes of honesty and friendship in a historical context.

In the follow-up to her previous book "Gulag," the author, a journalist delivers a history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Josef Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In this book, the author describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics is captured in the pages of this book.

In 1952 London, fourteen‑year‑old Janie allies with the enigmatic apothecary’s son to rescue the apothecary’s father and keep a powerful Pharmacopoeia out of cold‑war spies’ hands.

A teenage girl named Wendy is kidnapped by her own mother, a Nazi spy, and taken from Maine to Berlin during World War II, where she must survive with the help of a loyal dog and an unexpected family."

A Japanese town's tsunami brings devastation and survival stories in Margaret Hodges' imaginative tale for young adults and children alike.

When fifteen‑year‑old Catherine travels to Nova Scotia with her estranged father, they finally begin to understand one another, setting the stage for a tender coming‑of‑age story amid Atlantic landscapes.