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Doherty, Berlie

The Girl Who Saw Lions

249 pp. | Roaring Brook/Porter | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-377-9 $16.95
(2) YA Nine-year-old Abela's uncle sends her from Tanzania to Britain, intending to sell her. In parallel, Rosa's mother hopes to adopt a girl with Tanzanian roots. The story's three viewpoints (Rosa's and Abela's first-person narratives and Abela's third-person perspective as an adult) help underscore the contrasts between Rosa's small yet authentic worries about sharing her mother and Abela's courage in surviving cruelty.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2008

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