Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 006058176X
- 9780060581763
- 0329473603
- 9781415698662
- 9780329473600
- 141569866X
- 9781439547755
- 1439547750
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | WHELAN GLORIA | Available | 33111010509897 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
National Book Award-winning author Gloria Whelan takes readers from early twentieth-century British East Africa to a vast English estate in this historical coming-of-age tale that entangles a young girl in a surprising, deceit-filled plot.
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.