The Midnight Zoo
About this book
Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
Subjects
- animals
- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters, fiction
- child and youth fiction
- children's fiction
- europe, eastern, fiction
- fiction
- freedom
- gypsies
- history
- juvenile fiction
- refugees
- refugees, fiction
- romanies
- romanies, fiction
- siblings
- world war, 1939-1945
- world war (1939-1945) fast (ocolc)fst01180924
- world war, 1939-1945, fiction
- zoo animals
- zoo animals, fiction
- zoos
- zoos, fiction