“I don’t believe it. Of all the places we had to go for help, it was there— and he’s in with the gang!”
“One second, Elchanan. Look out the window — it’s not our parents, and it doesn’t look like the search party, either”
“It’s just… strange that there are no cars anywhere. We must be in a totally different place than where we started.” We’re out!” Elchanan whooped, high-fiving Avi. “We’re out of the forest!” Avi mustered up a smile, but he couldn’t bring himself to join Elchanan’s excitement until they were actually back home — or
I think we should just keep going in the direction Matt told us. At least then we know we’ll get out of the forest.”
I hope they don’t come across the boys. I didn’t like the look of them. They were hiding something
Elchanan realized that Avi had probably never climbed a tree before. But they were in grave danger
