TY - BOOK AU - Campbell-Johnston,Rachel TI - The Child's elephant SN - 0552571148 U1 - F CAM /O 22 PY - 2014/// CY - London, Corgi Books KW - Africa KW - Fiction KW - Child soldiers KW - Juvenile Fiction N2 - 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? ER -