02187cam a2200385 i 4500 609363808 TxAuBib 20221116120000.0 220509s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022021791 9780316316927 hardcover 031631692X hardcover (OCoLC)1285122487 TxAuBib rda Patterson, James, 1947-, author Elephant girl. The Elephant Girl : A Novel / James Patterson & Ellen Banda-Aaku with Sophia Krevoy. First edition. New York : Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 261 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu, Swahili for seed. When Mbegu's mother, frightened by poachers, stampedes, Jama and Mgebu are blamed for two deaths-one elephant and one human. Now Leku, whose mysterious and imposing father is head ranger at the conservancy, may be their only lifeline. Loosely inspired by true events, The Elephant Girl is a moving exploration of the bonds between creatures and the power of belonging"-- Provided by publisher. Ages 10-14 Little, Brown Young Readers. Grades 7-9 Little, Brown Young Readers. 20221116. Maasai (African people) Juvenile fiction. Maasai (African people) Fiction. Elephants Juvenile fiction. Elephants Fiction. Poaching Juvenile fiction. Poaching Fiction. Banda-Aaku, Ellen,. Krevoy, Sophia,.