When Martine’s home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn’t know she had. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve. But her grandmother and others working at Sawubona insist that the giraffe is just a myth. Martine is not so sure, until one stormy night when she looks out her window and locks eyes with Jemmy, a young silvery-white giraffe. Why is everyone keeping Jemmy’s existence a secret? Does it have anything to do with the rash of poaching going on at Sawubona? Martine needs all of the courage and smarts she has, not to mention a little African magic, to find out. First-time children’s author Lauren St. John brings us deep into the African world, where myths become reality and a young girl with a healing gift has the power to save her home and her one true friend.

Related: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), South Africa

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• ISBN: 9780803732117
• Author: St. John, Lauren
• Illustrator: Dean, David
• Published: 2007, Dial
• Themes: Children, Courage, Family, healing, power, Secret, wildlife
• Descriptors: Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), South Africa
• No. of pages: 192