About this book

While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.

Subjects

  • australia, fiction
  • child and youth fiction
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • forest fires, fiction
  • friendship
  • friendship, fiction
  • grandfathers
  • grandparents, fiction
  • history
  • holocaust survivors
  • holocaust survivors, fiction
  • jewish children
  • jews
  • jews, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • poland, fiction
  • separation (psychology)
  • short stories
  • wildfires
  • world war, 1939-1945
  • world war, 1939-1945, fiction