Zebra Forest / Adina Rishe Gewirtz / 200 pages

This book begs to be discussed.  The plot is very unique for a children's book.  The characters are well drawn and react very differently to a hostage situation.  Think what it would be like if the first few pages of the story of your life are missing and what you know to be your story is a lie.  Two young children are pretty much on their own as they live with their reclusive and ill grandmother near the edge of the Zebra Forest, a refuge of birch and oak trees.  Life as they know it ends when an escaped prisoner takes them hostage and the prisoner turns out to be their father who they thought to be dead.  You read it and tell me what you think!