Lauren St. John
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Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 1
Language
English
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After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
Author
Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 3
Language
English
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A third prophecy, this time involving a leopard, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical healing powers over animals, when she travels with her grandmother and best friend Ben to Zimbabwe.
Author
Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 4
Language
English
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A fourth prophecy, this time involving elephants, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl with mystical healing powers over animals, when she and her grandmother are faced with losing the Sawubona Game Reserve forever.
4) Dolphin song
Author
Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A second prophesy, this time involving dolphins, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical powers over animals, when she embarks on a school trip to study marine life off the coast of Mozambique.
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Series
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English
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"When twelve-year-old Kat Wolfe starts a pet-sitting agency, she soon finds herself unraveling a mystery, in Kat Wolfe Investigates, the first book in the middle-grade Wolfe and Lamb Mysteries from award-winning author Lauren St. John."--Amazon.com.
6) Wave riders
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English
Description
Twins Jess and Jude Carter live a dream life sailing from one exotic destination to the next with their guardian, Gabriel. But after Gabe vanishes and a storm smashes up their lives, they're left penniless and alone. When a wealthy, glamorous family offer them a home, everybody tells them they're the luckiest children in the world. But the Blakeneys' stately mansion is full of secrets -- secrets that seem entangled with the twins' own fate. As they...
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Series
Publisher
Farrar Struas Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Join brave Kat Wolfe and her animal sidekicks in this second mysterious adventure filled with friendship, freedom and a fierce wild cat! When a landslide on the Jurassic Coast reveals a rare 'dragon' dinosaur, best friends Kat Wolfe and Harper Lamb are thrilled, especially when stars and scientists come flocking to sleepy Bluebell Bay. But after they begin investigating a suspicious death, events spiral quickly out of control for detectives Wolfe...
Author
Series
One Dollar Horse volume 1
Publisher
Orion Children's
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream is to win the world's greatest Three Day Event: the Badminton Horse Trials. When she rescues a starving, half-wild horse, she's convinced that the impossible can be made possible. But she has reckoned without the consequences of her father's criminal record, or the distraction of a boy with melty, dark eyes, with whom she...
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Series
White giraffe volume 5
Publisher
Orion Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Sawubona's two precious white rhino are killed by poachers, Martine and her best friend Ben are distraught. Gwyn's friend offers to let the children stay at a rhino sanctuary near the Golden Gate National Park to take their minds off the tragedy, and they accept. But once they arrive, Martine and Ben discover that the sanctuary has a precious, living secret one that must be guarded from the poachers at all costs. Who can the children trust? And...
10) Fire storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Teenage eventing star Casey Blue has it all - fame, her champion horse Storm and a boyfriend who loves her. Then Kyle West walks into her life. The country's hottest equestrian coach is also drop dead gorgeous and Casey knows right away that she's in trouble. But who is Kyle and why are there so many unanswered questions about his past? And what is his connection to Anna Sparks, Casey's old rival? As the Burghley Horse Trials approaches, it becomes...
Author
Series
Wolfe and Lamb mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Stranded alone while vacationing in the Adirondacks, twelve-year-old best friends Kat Wolfe and Harper Lamb leave their snug cabin to search for a missing witness in a criminal case, while a blizzard nears.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, 11-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's family settles there, a chain of events is set in motion that will change her life irrevocably. This memoir captures the beauty and danger of life in the...
