An elephant in the garden
By: Michael Morpurgo
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780312593698
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Elephants; Juvenile fiction; History; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Lizzie's mother, a zookeeper, persuades the zoo director to allow Marlene, an orphaned elephant that has bonded with Lizzie and her younger brother, Karl, to be kept in their garden; when Dresden is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others but with an elephant in tow.

In 1944, Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite animal is the elephant, Marlene. When the  animals must be killed to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden.
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