The White Giraffe Series: Operation Rhino

Author: Lauren St John
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444012746
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
The fifth and final book in the heart-warming White Giraffe series by Lauren St John, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. Martine is starstruck when her boyband hero visits Sawubona for a safari. But within hours, poachers have pounced, leaving behind an orphaned rhino calf. Martine and Ben are entrusted with taking the baby rhino to a remote sanctuary. But Martine has a guilty secret - one that's stolen her healing gift. Alone in the wilderness, with the poachers closing in, Martine and Ben need all of the survival skills they possess to save one of the most endangered animals on earth.

The White Giraffe Series: Operation Rhino

Author: Lauren St John
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444012746
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Operation Rhino (5)

Author: Lauren St. John
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 9781444012729
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Join Martine in her fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling THE WHITE GIRAFFE series. When Sawubona's white rhinos are attacked, the poachers leave behind a terrified calf. Devastated but determined to help, Martine and Ben agree to take the rhino baby to a sanctuary near the Golden Gate Highlands National Park. But the sanctuary is hiding a precious secret - one that must be guarded from the poachers at all costs. When the secret gets out, Martine and Ben find themselves in the fight of their lives to save one of the rarest animals on earth. But who can they trust? A magical and heartwarming adventure about saving endangered species.

The White Giraffe

Author: Lauren St. John
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440638640
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
When 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.

Dolphin Song

Author: Lauren St. John
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440631166
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The second exciting adventure in the dramatic Legend of the Animal Healer series! Martine is just getting used to her new life on the game reserve with her grandmother and the white giraffe, Jemmy, when she must go away. Her class is going on a trip?an ocean voyage to watch the sardine run, a spectacular natural phenomenon off the coast of South Africa. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Martine and several of her classmates are thrown overboard into shark-infested waters! They are saved by a pod of dolphins and end up marooned on a deserted island. Now the castaways must learn to work together, not only to survive but to help the dolphins who are now in peril.

The White Giraffe Series: 4-book Ebook Collection

Author: Lauren St John
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444011081
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788

Book Description
Join Martine and her magical giraffe, Jemmy, for four heart-warming adventures set in Africa. Martine will discover her unique destiny as the child who can ride the white giraffe, rescue beached dolphins in the islands of Mozambique, race against time to save the world's rarest leopard and uncover a terrible plot in the Namibian desert. This collection includes: The White Giraffe Dolphin Song The Last Leopard The Elephant's Tale

The Last Leopard

Author: Lauren St. John
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780803733428
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
A third prophecy, this time involving a leopard, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical healing powers over animals, when she travels with her grandmother and best friend Ben to Zimbabwe.

The Station Cat

Author: Stephen Hogtun
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744070317
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
A stunning picture book about the power of hope. A lonely little kitten wanders into a dull, gray station, full of dull, gray people. Her colorful fur and bright green eyes bring warmth and life to this weary place, and soon people begin to notice the kitten. As she learns about the different travelers and their struggles from loss and loneliness, the little kitten wants to help fill their world with hope and color, too. In this timely and important book, author and illustrator Stephen Hogtun shows young readers the pride and sense of purpose that can come from helping others.

Kat Wolfe Investigates

Author: Lauren St John
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374309604
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
When twelve-year-old Kat Wolfe starts a pet-sitting agency, she soon finds herself unraveling a mystery, in this first book of a new middle-grade series from award-winning author Lauren St John. After a break-in at their London home, Kat Wolfe and her veterinarian mum decide it’s time to move to the country. Dr. Wolfe’s new job on England’s Jurassic Coast comes with a condition: They have to adopt Tiny, a huge Savannah who resists Kat’s best attempts at cat whispering. Kat starts a pet-sitting agency to make pocket money, but then the owner of her first client, an Amazon parrot, vanishes from his gadget-filled mansion. Only one person shares Kat’s conviction that he’s the victim of foul play: Harper Lamb, an American girl laid up with two broken legs thanks to her racehorse. Kat and Harper team up, but what starts out as mystery-solving fun turns deadly for the duo. When all clues point to a nearby army base, can they count on their unruly animal friends to save the day—and their lives?

The White Giraffe Series: The Last Leopard

Author: Lauren St John
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1842557653
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The third book in the heart-warming White Giraffe series by Lauren St John, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. After a terrifying incident nearly ends their African road trip, Martine and Ben are determined to put it behind them. But in Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills, a blackmail plot unleashes a chain of dangerous events. Why do all clues point to Khan, the world's rarest leopard? And what does a king's lost treasure have to do with it? As the line between myth and truth blurs, wildlife detectives Martine and Ben must race against time to save the leopard . . . and themselves.