An elephant in the garden / Michael Morpurgo ; illustrated by Michael Foreman.

By:

Morpurgo, Michael, 1943- [author,, editor.]

Contributor(s):

Foreman, Michael, 1938- [author,, illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : HarperCollins Children's, 2010.Description: 232 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780007339570
0007339577
0007339569
9780007339563

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.914 22

Summary: It's 1944. Elizabeth's father is fighting with the German army on the eastern front. Her mother works at Dresden zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her...and then the bombs start to fall. Their home destroyed, Elizabeth and her family must flee the bombed-out city and through the wintery landscape, all the while avoiding the Russian troops who are drawing ever closer. It would be hard enough, without an elephant in tow!

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Junior Fiction	Hāwera LibraryPlus Children's	Children's Fiction	MORP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	06/06/2023	I2089711

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It's 1944. Elizabeth's father is fighting with the German army on the eastern front. Her mother works at Dresden zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her...and then the bombs start to fall. Their home destroyed, Elizabeth and her family must flee the bombed-out city and through the wintery landscape, all the while avoiding the Russian troops who are drawing ever closer. It would be hard enough, without an elephant in tow!

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