The elephant girl
Title
:
The elephant girl
Personal Author EPSB
:
James, Patterson
Summary
:
Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu, Swahili for seed. When Mbegu's mother, frightened by poachers, stampedes, Jama and Mgebu are blamed for two deaths-one elephant and one human. Now Leku, whose mysterious and imposing father is head ranger at the conservancy, may be their only lifeline.
Year Published
:
2022
Physical Description
:
261 pages ; 21 cm
Awards
:
2025 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Intermediate nominee
Subject
:
Maasai (African people) -- Fiction.
Elephants -- Fiction.
Poaching -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Added Author
:
Banda-Aaku, Ellen,
Krevoy, Sophia,
Summary
:
Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu, Swahili for seed. When Mbegu's mother, frightened by poachers, stampedes, Jama and Mgebu are blamed for two deaths-one elephant and one human. Now Leku, whose mysterious and imposing father is head ranger at the conservancy, may be their only lifeline.
ISBN
:
9780316316927
Publisher
:
New York : Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
©2022
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