Book description
Eleven-year-old Josie Grun escapes from Communist East Germany with
her mother and father one dark night in 1989 just months before the
Berlin Wall comes tumbling down. Braving border guards, barbed wire,
and rifle shots, Josie reluctantly turns her back on her best friend,
Greta, and all that was once familiar. She crosses the ocean to join
her uncle in Calgary, attempts to learn a foreign language, and
overcomes the prejudices of her schoolmates in order to forge a new
life. Clinging to the passion that has always been a comfort, her
figure skating, she enters a local competition to prove that she is
free on the ice and off.
Ann Alma's books appears on the children's books bestseller lists
and on the British Columbia government's recommended reading lists.
She lives on a hobby farm in the West Kootenay mountains near Nelson,
British Columbia.
