I forgot I read this. It's a children's book and Olivia's teacher read it aloud to them in her sixth grade class. She loved it and couldn't wait until she would hear another chapter. It's about a boy in the Vietnam war whose village is invaded and the village flees to the jungle. The boy ends up living with the elephants his family keeps. It's a very good book with no false notes or manipulative moments. It's told very sparely, as an adult you fill in the scary blanks but I think as an 11 year old it's enough information but not too much so that you're scarred for life. Olivia told me that when her teacher was reading the end the teacher started to cry and they had to pat her and bring her kleenexes. I know the feeling.
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