Title The great elephant chase / Gillian Cross

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB CRC	82J Cro/Gec		AVAILABLE

Description 193 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm Summary In 1881 fifteen-year-old Tad helps a girl in her attempt to get a mighty Indian elephant to friends in Nebraska, while pursued by two unscrupulous villains who wish to take the elephant from her. Suggested level: primary, intermediate Notes 1992 Smarties book prize winner For 10-12 year olds -- Education Services, Wellington, N.Z Whitbread Award winner 1992 Nestlé Children's Book Prize: 9-11 years, 1992 winner Whitbread Book Awards: Children's Novel, 1992 winner Subject Adventure stories -- Juvenile fiction. Elephants -- Juvenile fiction. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction, English. Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction. Elephants -- Fiction. SUBJECT Nebraska http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80072484 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140515 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687 Nebraska -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116259 Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction. Fiction. LC no. zbn92123050 ISBN 0192716727

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