Whelan, Gloria.
Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan. - New York : HarperCollins, c2005. - 194 p. ; 22 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.
0060581743 0060581751 (lib. bdg.) 9780060581763
Self-realization--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Africa, East--History--20th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.
813 WHE
Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan. - New York : HarperCollins, c2005. - 194 p. ; 22 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.
0060581743 0060581751 (lib. bdg.) 9780060581763
Self-realization--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Physicians--Fiction.
Africa, East--History--20th century--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction.
813 WHE