02603cam a2200397 i 4500 384589328 TxGeo 20190607120000.0 160921s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016946908 bl2016041163 9780763688035 hbk. 0763688037 hbk. (OCoLC)935983510 TxGeo rda Nesbet, Anne. Cloud and wallfish / Anne Nesbet. First edition. Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2016. 385 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 isn't really Noah and he didn't really just turn eleven in March. And he can't even ask them why, not because of his Astonishing Stutter, but because asking questions is against the newly instated rules. (Rule Number Two: Don't talk about serious things indoors, because Rule Number One: They will always be listening). As Noah, now "Jonah Brown," and 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 listening and 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 that's impossible to understand."--Supplied by publisher. Middle School. 850 Lexile. 20190619. Junior Library Guild selection. Friendship Fiction. Children of spies Germany (East) Fiction. Identity Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Berlin (Germany) Fiction. Historical fiction. QS5