Time Travel Adventure "The Wandspringer" Explores the History of the Berlin Wall
When Ellie uncovers a hidden link between her missing father and a legendary spy, she's drawn into a daring mission across time.
MORRISON, CO, September 12, 2025 -- In The Wandspringer young Ellie must travel back in time to East Berlin to save her father who has been imprisoned there. She also must find the man who has come to the present to gather information about the fall of the Berlin Wall and how to prevent it. Ellie is given courage by the expectation that she will be aided by the famous spy called The Wandspringer. Yet through the adventure she finds strength and skill within herself.
After her father disappears, Ellie goes to live with her eccentric uncle who spends his nights working on strange equipment in his cellar. When she discovers her uncle has a time machine down there she goes back in time seeking a hero to help her save her father.
How do you explain fascism to a child in a way that they can understand and yet not leave them with nightmares? In this middle grade time travel novel readers live the history of the post-World War II division of Germany and the terrors of the totalitarian regime that controlled East Berlin.
The Wandspringer is widely available in both paperback and ebook formats. It can be found in both online booksellers and brick and mortar stores worldwide.
As part of its Autumn Fest, the York Literature Festival will be holding a book launch of The Wandspringer at the York Explore Library in York, UK on October 23 at 6 p.m. https://exploreyork.org.uk/whats-on/
About the Author: Robert C. Edgar is a professor of writing and popular culture in the York Centre for Writing at York St John University, UK, primarily teaching creative writing. He has also edited and written works on screenwriting, directing fiction, the language of film, American cinema, science fiction, folk horror, and music memoir, and is the co-convener of the Music Memoir Research Group and the Hauntology and Spectrality Research Group. He is also one of the series editors for the Bloomsbury Academic series: Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors.
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