Morpurgo, Michael.

An elephant in the garden / Michael Morpurgo. - 1st Square Fish ed. - New York : Square Fish/Feiwel and Friends, 2013. �2010 - 199 p. ; 20 cm.

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Lizzie and Karl's mother, Mutti, working at a local zoo in Dresden, Germany, during World War II while their father is away fighting in France, brings home Marlene, a baby elephant that is slated to be destroyed as the Allied bombing grows closer, and when they are forced to flee, Mutti feels they must take Marlene with them, adding even more danger to their journey.

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Elephants--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Dresden (Germany)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

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