The Midnight Zoo
This somber yet not hopeless fable set during WWII offers a haunting portrait of families, human and otherwise, torn apart...Lindgren Award-winner Hartnett combines powerful prose with magical realism to heighten this setting and develop the personalities of the animals that the boys meet, who begin to speak after another round of bombing.—Publishers Weekly (starred review)This beautiful and sad book will stay with readers long after the story is done.—School Library Journal