Title: Listening for lions
First published: 2005
Description: Historical fiction with a wicked twist.Listening for Lions is a breathtaking story of tragedy, deception, and triumph against all odds. National Book Award–winning author Gloria Whelan sets this richly historical coming–of–age adventure in British East Africa in the year 1918. This irresistible novel entangles an orphaned girl in a deceit filled plot. Young Rachel Sheridan is made to leave her beloved Africa for England, where she must pose as the deceased daughter of a nefarious couple in an effort to gain them an enormous inheritance. Her irrepressible spirit and extraordinary wit turn her from victim to heroine in a surprising and empowering tale of a remarkable young woman.
Subjects: Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Orphans, Physicians, Self-realization, Self-realization -- Fiction, Orphans -- Fiction, Physicians -- Fiction, Africa, East -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction, Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction, Orphans, fiction, Physicians, fiction, Children's fiction, Africa, east, fiction, Great britain, history, fiction
Places: East Africa, Great Britain
Time periods: 20th century, George V, 1910-1936
LC classification: PZ7.W5718 Li 2005