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Child's Elephant
Paperback Edition: 1/2014
When a baby elephant is abandoned on the African savannah, a young boy named Bat takes her back to his village and cares for her. But Bat's grandmother explains that Meya cannot stay with them for ever - the call of the wild will always
be sounding in her soul. And there are frightening rumours on the wind, of kidnapping and suffering and war. Bat and his friend Muka are catapulted into a new life of unimaginable terror. Will the bond between elephant and child remain strong enough to save them? This book is a thrilling, heartbreaking and beautiful novel from an exciting new voice in children's books, Rachel Campbell-Johnston.
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Pages : 378
Publisher : Corgi
Publication date : 2014-04
Subjects: Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Children's & Young Adult Fiction, General Fiction (Children's / Young Adult)