Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan.
By: Whelan, Gloria.
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BookPublisher: New York : HarperCollins, c2005Description: 194 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0060581743; 0060581751 (lib. bdg.); 9780060581763.Subject(s): Self-realization -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | Physicians -- Fiction | Africa, East -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- FictionDDC classification: 813 WHE 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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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.
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