"What if you found an animal thought to be extinct? Kira teams up with Evie, a student at the animal sanctuary, to track down the elusive paradise parrot and prove that it still exists. But bushfires are threatening the sanctuary--including the parrot's habitat--and all the animals must be evacuated. When a baby wallaby goes missing, Kira is desperate to find it before it's too late. As the bushfires rage out of control, Kira makes a troubling...

While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.