Rebecca Frankel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Under the cover of night, deep in the desert of Afghanistan, a US Army handler led a Special Forces patrol with his military working dog. Without warning an insurgent popped up, his weapon raised. At the handler's command, the dog charged their attacker. There was the flash of steel, the blur of fur, and the sound of a single shot; the handler watched his dog take a bullet. During the weeks it would take the dog to heal, the handler never left its...
Author
Language
English
Description
A gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut
In the summer of 1942, the Jewish Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi killing squad terrorizing their Polish hometown. They fled to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest where they miraculously survived for two years. Of the 800 Jews from their town who hid in the forest, barely 200 survived, just a tiny number of them children. Liberated in 1944 by...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a wedding in Connecticut. In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods-through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids-until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After...