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A perfect friend

Still grieving over the death of his mother, eleven-year-old Ben finds solace in the special relationship he forms with an elephant in a visiting circus.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Price, Reynolds, 1933-2011
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000.
Subjects:	Elephants > Juvenile fiction. Circus > Juvenile fiction. Human-animal communication > Juvenile fiction. Grief > Juvenile fiction. Death > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Still grieving over the death of his mother, eleven-year-old Ben finds solace in the special relationship he forms with an elephant in a visiting circus.
Physical Description:	168 p. cm.
ISBN:	0689830297
Author Notes:	Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 - January 20, 2011), born Edward Reynolds Price in Macon, North Carolina, was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. After graduating from Duke University in 1955, he won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University. Despite being living as a paraplegic after receiving radiation treatment for a spinal tumor since the mid-1980s, he produced approximately one book a year. His first novel, A Long and Happy Life (1962) won the William Faulkner Award. His other works include The Names and Faces of Heroes, Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides, A Whole New Life, and The Good Priest's Son. Kate Vaiden won the National Books Critics Circle Award. His plays have been produced on stage and on PBS's American Playhouse. He died due to complications of a heart attack on January 20, 2011 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography)