num_pages: 288
description: 2018 Carolyn W. Field Award Honor Book2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Teen ReadersWhen sixteen-year-old Ellie Baum accidentally time-travels via red balloon to 1988 East Berlin she's caught up in a conspiracy of history and magic. She meets members of an underground guild in East Berlin who use balloons and magic to help people escape over the Wallbut even to the balloon makers Ellie's time travel is a mystery. When it becomes clear that someone is using dark magic to change history Ellie must risk everythingincluding her only way hometo stop the process.
language: English
title: The Girl with the Red Balloon
publisher: AW Teen