TY - BOOK AU - Harmel, Kristin, TI - The forest of vanishing stars SN - 9781802793628 U1 - 813.6 23 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fiction KW - Underground movements KW - Kidnapping victims KW - Wilderness survival KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Germany KW - History N2 - 1941. Stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, Yona finds herself alone after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what is happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest-- and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. When Yona is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything. -- adapted from jacket ER -