Zebra Forest

by Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Book Overview

In an extraordinary debut novel, an escaped fugitive upends everything two siblings think they know about their family, their past, and themselves.

When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. "If you're going to do something, make sure you do it with excellence," Gran would say. That was when Gran was feeling talkative, and not brooding for days in her room -- like she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763660418
• ISBN13: 9780763660413
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

This is one of those you want to read a couple times. It’s definitely for all ages. Impressive, diff

The characters are complex and real, the life is mundane but intriguing, suddenly enabling you to join 2 children and their grandmother on what could be a real life journey through their own past and present.