The soldiers came at dusk, sweeping like a hungry fire through the village of Ein Karem.
During the catastrophe, seventeen-year-old Carmel and her family are forced from their ancestral home and young Carmel is wounded.
When she wakes, she finds her world changed, her home empty, the soldiers gone.
Her only companions are her scruffy dog Francis and her family's faithful olive tree.
With their family now stuck on the other side of a great partition wall, Carmel, Francis and Olive strugg.
Bridges For Bethlehem The trio, paperback/diana toups
