 Thirteen-year-old Mascha is bored living with her grandparents for the summer in their quiet, small town. She meets siblings, Max, 7, and Julia, 9, who are withdrawn and shy and covered with bruises. Mascha suspects that their father is physically abusing them and when the adults don’t listen, she takes matters into her own hands. She makes some unusual choices, kidnaps the children, and locks them in an abandoned farmhouse in a nearby field. Mascha is brave, helpless, and desperate, and she wants to do the right thing, but her actions bring unintended consequences for everyone. This disturbing, heartbreaking, and straightforward novel about child abuse is discussion provoking mjw |
| Title: You Can’t See The Elephants Author: Susan Kreller Publisher: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, USA Copyright: 2015 Original Language: German Translator: Elizabeth Gaffney Original Title: Elefanten sieht man nicht Original Publisher: Carlsen Verlag Gmb H Original Copyright: 2012 ISBN: 978-0-399-17209-0 Hardcover pages: 192 Age range: 10 up Genre: Fiction Book setting: The translator set the book in the USA Author’s ethnicity: German Author’s residence: Germany Awards: Author has been nominated for the German Youth Literature prize twice and has won the Kranichsteiner Literary Prize Subjects: Abuse, Brothers and sisters, Child abuse, Dysfunctional relationships, Grandparents, Siblings |
You Can’t See The Elephants
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