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Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper Trophy, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006Copyright date: ©2005Edition: First Harper Trophy editionDescription: 194 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 006058176X
  • 9780060581763
  • 0329473603
  • 9781415698662
  • 9780329473600
  • 141569866X
  • 9781439547755
  • 1439547750
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Bk. 1. Rachel Sheridan -- bk. 2. Valerie Pritchard -- bk. 3. Rachel Pritchard.
Summary: Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction WHELAN GLORIA Available 33111010509897
Total holds: 0

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A critically acclaimed historical novel "that roars" (Kliatt), from the author of the National Book Award-winning novel Homeless Bird.

Africa is the only home Rachel Sheridan has ever known. But when her missionary parents are struck with influenza, she is left vulnerable to her family's malicious neighbors. Surrounded by greed and lies, Rachel is entangled in a criminal scheme and sent to England, where she's forced into a life of deception.

Like the lion, she must be patient and strong, awaiting the moment when she can take control of her own fate--and find her way home again at last.

Named one of New York Public Library's One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing, this tale of a strong young heroine "in the tradition of Frances Hodgson Burnett" (School Library Journal), by award-winning master of historical fiction Gloria Whelan, is a perfect read for schools and classrooms, as well as for fans of A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park.

Ages 10 up.

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.

Includes bibliographical references (page 199).

Bk. 1. Rachel Sheridan -- bk. 2. Valerie Pritchard -- bk. 3. Rachel Pritchard.

Reading Counts RC 6.5 13.0.

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