Campbell-Johnston, Rachel.

The Child's elephant / Rachel Campbell-Johnston. - London ; Corgi Books, 2014. - 381 p. : ill ; 20 cm.

Michael Morpurgo When a baby elephant is abandoned on the African savannah, a young boy named Bat takes her back to his village and cares for her. But Bat's grandmother explains that Meya cannot stay with them for ever - the call of the wild will always be sounding in her soul. Then frightening rumours arrive at the village; rumours of kidnapping, suffering and war. Bat and his friend Muka are snatched, and catapulted into a new life of unimaginable terror. Will the bond between Bat and Meya strong enough to save them?

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Africa--Fiction.
Child soldiers--Africa--Juvenile Fiction.

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