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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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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.

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