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I loved this book. It's a sad one, though, so keep tissues around if you cry easily. Jan and Antonina ran a zoo in Warsaw before the war. They had a young son in a villa and they woke every day to an ideal life for them. When World War II began, they figured they had to do something to thwart the Nazis. The Nazis had bombed the zoo almost to bits, stolen the very valuable animals that survived, and killed the rest for sport. Besides that, they had an agenda against the Jews. So Jan became a sabo
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