The child's elephant

By Rachel Campbell-Johnston

Subjects: Soldiers, fiction, Children's stories, Child soldiers, Children's fiction, Africa, fiction, Juvenile fiction

Description: When a baby elephant is orphaned on the African savannah, a young boy named Bat takes her home. But Bat's grandmother knows that Meya cannot stay with them for ever; the call of the wild will always be sounding in her soul. Then Bat and his best friend are snatched by soldiers and catapulted into a terrifying new life. Will the bond between Bat and Meya be strong enough to save them?