Karos dad is dead or so she believes and when a stranger comes to the door one day looking for her mum, Karo wants nothing to do with this man. But Karos mother wont see sense. She starts to spend more and more time with this strange man from her past, and cant see how unhappy it is all making her daughter. Karo squabbles with her friend, starts to skip school, she even runs away to her grandfather, but nothing she can do seems to have any effect on her changing family. Set in Hamburg after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this is a story of how international events can affect the everyday lives of ordinary families.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 145 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2010 by Little Island .

Renate Ahrens was born in Germany in 1955. After some years working as a teacher, she moved to Dublin in 1986 with her husband and has since worked as a freelance author. As well as children's and adult books, she has written stage and radio plays and scripts for children's television programmes, and her books for children and adults have been translated into other languages. Over the Wall (published in German under the title Die Welt steht Kopf) is her first children's book to be published in Ireland, where she now lives. Annie West was born in Glasgow. She graduated from Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design in 1979 with a Diploma in Design for Communications. Annie exhibits every year in Dublin and Sligo. She illustrates figures from history, literature and science with mischief in mind. She also works to commission and originals can be found in the collections of such stars as Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Neil Jordan, Mick Galway and Sharon Shannon.