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Title:
The elephant girl
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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
ISBN:
9780316316927
Publisher:
New York : Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

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