01414    a2200181   4500001000700000020001800007040003200025100002100057245002300078300004500101362000900146490002500155520096600180650001701146650002501163650002401188650002001212125279  a9780545078054  cEscola Canadense de Niteroi  aJohn, Lauren St.10aThe white giraffe   a192 p.c7 x 2.2 x 20.4 iches (paperback)0 a20080 aAnimal Healer Series  aWhen 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. 4aWild animals 4aJuvenile Literature  4aMagic and Magicians 4aAfrican Culture