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BOOK REVIEW: Freedom Trap
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by: Dell Smith Klein Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Freedom Trap Genre: Inspirational/Historical/Juvenile/Fiction Freedom Trap by Robert Elmer is #5 of the Promise of Zion series. It is 1948 and thirteen year old Dov Zalinski is trapped in the Jewish Quarter of Old City Jerusalem. Windows shatter and walls fall. During the chaotic siege Dov makes his way to a neighbor's home. The bombing and gunfire leaves several orphans homeless and they are taken into the small home as well. Dov hatches a plan to help them escape. Others fear the plan will fail. In order for his plan to work, Dov needs the help of his brother, Natan, but that isn't likely. Caring for and helping the orphans escape the Old City become almost an obsession. Meanwhile Dov's friend, Emily Parkinson, is on a different kind of quest. With her nanny, Emily sets out for her home in England. Their ship docks for repairs at cypress Island. On the island sits a detention camp, run by the British, for illegal Jews. While there, Emily seeks news of Dov's parents. In her efforts she meets J.D. Roper, a brash American journalist who wants to write about the camp. Emily and Roper get in and out of several breathtaking jams, one of which lands her back in Jerusalem. Robert Elmer, who began his writing career as a newspaper reporter, gave the world the exciting Astro Kids series, Adventures Down Under, The Young Underground and four other Promise of Zion books. Cover illustrator, Chris Ellison, provided a simple beige and green cover with a 'snapshot' of Emily and Dov high above the Hinnon Valley. There are no interior illustrations. Readers who have enjoyed futuristic Astro Kids, or hard hitting Young Underground won't be disappointed with Robert Elmer's Freedom Trap.
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