Title: The wooden ox
Description: Thirteen-year-old Keri questions whether God cares when she, her younger brother, and their parents are kidnapped while doing missionary work in Mozambique and forced to walk each night further into rebel territory.
Subjects: Christian life, Fiction, Guerrillas, History, Juvenile fiction, Missionaries, Mozambique Independence and Civil War, 1975-1994, War
Places: Mozambique
Time periods: Independence and Civil War, 1975-1994