The elephant girl
Título
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The elephant girl
James, Patterson
Resumen
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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.
Fecha de publicación como intervalo
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2022
Descripción física
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261 pages ; 21 cm
2025 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Intermediate nominee
Término de la materia
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Maasai (African people) -- Fiction.
Elephants -- Fiction.
Poaching -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Autor añadido
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Banda-Aaku, Ellen,
Krevoy, Sophia,
Síntesis
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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
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9780316316927
Información de publicación
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New York : Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
©2022
Biblioteca | Signatura topográfica | Tipo de material | Código de barras del documento | Estado |
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Shauna May Seneca | F PAT | Book - Junior High | 31929000080880 | YRCA Shelf |