Listening for lions
By: Gloria Whelan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Self-realization -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Physicians -- Fiction; Africa, East -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Ages 10 up.
Includes bibliographical references.