The Wall

The Wall by William Sutcliffe, 289 pages

People who are different live on the other side of the wall.  People on Joshua’s side of the wall say that the other people want to bomb and kill Joshua’s people.  When Joshua finds the tunnel that leads to the other side of the wall he is curious so he crawls through.  What he finds there surprises him.  A group of boys chase him and it’s clear to Joshua that they want to hurt him, but a girl helps him.  She hides him and helps him find his way back to the tunnel so he can get home.  Joshua ends up trying to help the girl’s family, but when his stepfather finds out about the family, he nearly destroys everything.  While the actual setting of this story is fictional, it resembles the conflict in Israel’s West Bank.  This was a really good book and teens interested in real life stories about other countries will enjoy this.