Listening for lions /

Whelan, Gloria

Listening for lions / by Gloria Whelan. - New York : HarperTrophy, 2005. - 194

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.



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Self-realization--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
Physicians--Fiction


Africa, East--History--20th century--Fiction
Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936--Fiction