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The girl who saw lions /

In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doherty, Berlie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Adoption > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) > Fiction.
Family life > Tanzania > Fiction.
Family life > England > Fiction.
Tanzania > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Adoption > Juvenile fiction.
Grief > Juvenile fiction.
AIDS (Disease) > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:In alternating voices, thirteen-year-old Rosa and her mother are trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and her uncle illegally sends her to England, in the hopes of selling her.
Physical Description:249 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9781596433779
1596433779