The girl who saw lions / Berlie Doherty.
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true New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department J FIC DOHERTY
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Details
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Description
- 249 pages ; 22 cm
- Note
- "A Neal Porter book."
- Originally published: Great Britain, Andersen Press, c2007.
- Summary
- In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her.
- Study Program
- Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.0 9.0 128973.
- Subject
- Adoption -- Juvenile fiction.
- Grief -- Juvenile fiction.
- AIDS (Disease) -- Juvenile fiction.
- Adoption -- Fiction.
- Grief -- Fiction.
- AIDS (Disease) -- Fiction.
- Family life -- Tanzania -- Fiction.
- Families -- England -- Fiction.
- Tanzania -- Fiction.
- England -- Fiction.
- Added Title
- Abela
- ISBN
- 9781596433779
- 1596433779