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The Elephant in the Room
- Author
- Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrator
- Gail Shalan, Gail Shalan
- Publisher
- Piccadilly Press
- Publish Date
- 5 August 2021
- Run Time
- 5 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, Migration, immigration and emigration, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Disability, impairments and special needs
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The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to bear. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with a unique boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places.
A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humour that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.
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- Author
- Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Narrator
- Gail Shalan, Gail Shalan
- Duration
- 5 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 August 2021
- ISBN
- 9781800781559
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Piccadilly Press
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, Migration, immigration and emigration, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Disability, impairments and special needs
Synopsis
It's been almost a year since Sila's mum travelled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States.The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to bear. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with a unique boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places.A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humour that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.
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