You can't see the elephants
By: Susan Kreller ; translated by Elizabeth Gaffney
Contributors: Gaffney, Elizabeth, translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780399172090
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Abusive men; Child abuse; Brothers and sisters; Public opinion; Juvenile fiction; Fiction
Other titles: You cannot see the elephants
Work titles: Elefanten sieht man nicht
Description: When thirteen-year-old Mascha is sent to her grandparents' for the summer, she spends her days bored and lonely at a nearby playground. There she meets Julia and Max, two young siblings who are incredibly shy and withdrawn. Mascha soon begins to suspect that they are being physically abused by their father, a prominent member of their small community. She tells her grandparents and the authorities, but they all refuse to believe her. Mascha can't let the abuse go on, so she takes matters into her own hands.
Notes: Translated from the German.

"Originally published in Germany in 2012 by Carlsen Verlag GmbH under the title Elefanten sieht man nicht"--Title page verso.

Ages 10-12.

Middle School.

790 Lexile.

Translated from the German.