There, she'll find clues about her past and future.Ībove all, this is a heart-warming story, full of charm and atmosphere, and Martine's sheer delight in her giraffe friend and the fantastic landscape that is theirs to explore. This is the beginning of her mysterious and magical adventures, and her discovery of her gift of healing and a secret valley that she travels to with the giraffe. One night Martine, lonely and feeling slightly rebellious too, looks out of her window and see a young albino giraffe: silver, tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight. She must leave her home to live on an African wildlife reserve with a grandmother she never even knew she. Johns The White Giraffe - Martine is left an orphan after her parents die in a fire in England she is shipped. There are secrets about Sawubona (the reserve) just waiting to be revealed, and rumours too about a fabled white giraffe - a trophy for hunters everywhere. The night Martine Allen turns eleven years old is the night her life changes completely. Fall Novel: The White Giraffe by Lauren St. But she has an ally in Tendai, one of the keepers on the reserve, from whom she learns the lore and survival techniques of the bush, and in Grace, who instantly senses there is something special about Martine. Her grandmother seems strangely unwelcoming, and Martine has a difficult time settling in at her new school, where she is conspicuously an outsider. When she is 11 years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa.
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