The elephant keeper : caring for orphaned elephants in Zambia
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- ISBN: 9781771385619
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Physical Description:
regular print
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 26 cm - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Kids Can Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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Subject: | Elephants -- Juvenile fiction Animal rescue -- Juvenile fiction Poaching -- Juvenile fiction |
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Summary:
When teenaged Aaron discovers a baby elephant nearly drowning in the swimming pool at the guest lodge where he works, he acts quickly and manages to save the animal just in time. The rescued baby is brought to an elephant orphanage for care, and given the name Zambezi. Though Aaron has been raised to think of elephants as dangerous to humans and their crops, on a visit to the orphanage, he learns that illegal poaching of these animals is threatening them with extinction, and the orphanage is trying to prevent that from happening. And when Aaron is offered a job at the orphanage, his life is suddenly transformed, as he discovers a bond of friendship with Zambezi and his lifelong vocation as an elephant keeper. Inspired by the real-life Aaron and Zambezi at the Lilayi Elephant Nursery in Zambia. Three nonfiction spreads interspersed throughout the story explore facts about elephants, ivory poaching and elephant orphanages. The back of the book contains ways children can help endangered wildlife.