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 isnt really Noah and he didnt really just turn eleven in March. And he cant even ask them whynot because of his Astonishing Stutter, but because asking questions is against the newly instated rules. (Rule Number Two: Dont talk about serious things indoors, because Rule Number One: They will always be listening). As Noahnow Jonah Brownand 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 listeningand 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 thats impossible to understand.