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2018 Carolyn W. Field Award Honor Book
2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book for Teen Readers
When 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 Wall--but 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 everything--including her only way home--to stop the process.
Katherine Locke
Katherine Locke lives and writes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with their feline overlords and their addiction to chai lattes. They are the author of The Girl with the Red Balloon, a 2018 Sydney Taylor Honor Book and 2018 Carolyn W. Field Honor Book, as well as The Spy with the Red Balloon and This Rebel Heart. They are the coeditor and contributor to This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us, which had three starred reviews and made the Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade of 2021 list, as well as It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories. They also contributed to Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens and Out Now: Queer We Go Again! They are also the author of the picture books Bedtime for Superheroes, What Are Your Words? A Book About Pronouns, and Being Friends with Dragons. They can be found online at katherinelockebooks.com and @bibliogato on Twitter and Instagram.
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