Listening for lions /
Whelan, Gloria.
Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan. - 1st . Harper Trophy ed, - New York : Harper Trophy, c2006 - 194 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Ages 10 up.
006058176X 9780060581763
2004020844
Self-realization--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Physicians--Juvenile fiction.
Africa, East--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.W5718 / Li 2005
[Fic]
Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan. - 1st . Harper Trophy ed, - New York : Harper Trophy, c2006 - 194 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Ages 10 up.
006058176X 9780060581763
2004020844
Self-realization--Juvenile fiction.
Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Physicians--Juvenile fiction.
Africa, East--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.W5718 / Li 2005
[Fic]