The White Giraffe
Book 1
$18.75
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2007
Summary
When she is eleven years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her grandmother seems strangely unwelcoming and Martine has a difficult time settling in at her new school, where she is conspicuously an outsider. But she has an ally in Tendai - one of the keepers on the reserve, from whom she learns the lore and survival techniques of the bush, and in Grace - who instantly senses there is something special about Martine.
There …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842555637 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1842555634 |
| Author: | Lauren St John, David Dean |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Orion Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The White Giraffe Series |
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St John’s descriptions of southern Africa provide a sumptuous backdrop…. top-drawer adventure storytelling, with an added helping of fantasy thrown in. It all makes for a genuinely gripping tale that will warm even the coldest of hearts. - WATERSTONE’S BOOKS QUARTERLY - Joe Melia, Waterstone’s Bristol Galleries
enthralling… we may not all have a white giraffe to make life easier, but his book remainds us that even the most miserable situation can get better. - SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST - John MillenAbout The Author
Lauren St John
Lauren St John was born in Gatooma, Rhodesia, now Kadoma, Zimbabwe. Aged 11 she and her family moved to Rainbow’s End farm in Gadzema, which later became the subject of her memoir. After studying journalism, she relocated to England, where she was golf correspondent to the SUNDAY TIMES. She is the author of several books on sports and music, as well as the award-winning children’s quartet The White Giraffe and the BLUE PETER AWARD-winning Laura Marlin series. She has also recently written an adult novel, The Obituary Writer, published in 2013.
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