Zebra Forest

Name: Zebra Forest
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: Adina Rishe Gewirtz
ISBN: 9781469275574

Author: Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Narrator: Kate Reinders

Unabridged: 4 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/09/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

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—as she did after telling Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie and Rew spend their days under the birches and oaks of the Zebra Forest, telling stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens to unravel all their stories: a rattling at the back door, an escapee from the prison holding them hostage in their own home, four lives that will never be the same.This deeply compelling, emotionally evocative, and grippingly suspenseful look at the complicated fallout from long-held family secrets is impossible to forget.

About Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Adina Rishe Gewirtz has worked as a freelance journalist, a high-school tutor, a business-writing consultant, and a writing coach. Zebra Forest is her debut novel. She lives just outside Washington, D.C., with her husband, Daniel, and their five children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on February 25, 2013

**Received from Goodreads first reads giveaway. Zebra Forest is a fantastic debut novel. The story of Annie, Rew, Gram and Andrew Snow grabbed me from the first page. Annie and Rew are being rasied by their Grandmother (Gram). Their Mother has abondoned them, their father is "dead". They live quietly......more

Goodreads review by Melodie on December 03, 2016

This was an excellent debut story of a young girl dealing with a less than perfect life. Her younger brother has anger/impulse control issues and her grandmother struggles with depression that shows itself in hoarding and isolation. She accepts her life,adapting and making do.Her life takes a drama......more

Goodreads review by April on May 09, 2013

Perhaps this makes me sound like a total hipster, but I enjoy reading books that aren’t very commercial. I love books that have some literary merit as well as entertainment value. When Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz popped up on my radar, I knew I had to read this middle grade debut. First of a......more

Goodreads review by Jane on July 24, 2017

Meh. It's not that this wasn't well-written (it was), it's just that I didn't really connect with it. I was a similar age to the main character at that point in time, so it felt like I should have been able to settle in and feel at home in the time period, but it missed the mark for me somehow.......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on April 30, 2013

Very close to five stars: in fact I do think technically the book deserves it, especially considering it is a debut novel. The author pulls off a very tricky plot and manages to make it feel almost entirely unforced. The hostage situation the story revolves around is beautifully framed with a histor......more