num_pages: 180
description: When Martine’s home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn’t know she had. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve. But her grandmother and others working at Sawubona insist that the giraffe is just a myth. Martine is not so sure, until one stormy night when she looks out her window and locks eyes with Jemmy, a young silvery-white giraffe. Why is everyone keeping Jemmy’s existence a secret? Does it have anything to do with the rash of poaching going on at Sawubona? Martine needs all of the courage and smarts she has, not to mention a little African magic, to find out. First-time children’s author Lauren St. John brings us deep into the African world, where myths become reality and a young girl with a healing gift has the power to save her home and her one true friend.
language: English
title: The White Giraffe
titlecomplete: The White Giraffe (Animal Healer, #1)
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Animals, Fiction, Fantasy, Africa, Mystery, Family
ratings_count: 7113
places: South Africa
series: Animal Healer
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: Dial Books Young Readers