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The elephant in the room

Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.

Main Author: Sloan, Holly Goldberg, 1958- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021.
Subjects:
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Elephants > Juvenile fiction.
Separation (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
Emigration and immigration > Juvenile fiction.
Turkish Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.
Physical Description: 250 pages ; 22 cm
Audience: Ages 10 and up.
Grades 4-6.
ISBN: 9780735229945
0735229945
9780593354315
0593354311
Author Notes: Holly Goldberg Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She attended college at Wellesley in Massachusetts. After graduating, she worked in commercial advertising as a production assistant, then a script supervisor, a producer, and finally as a commercial director. She also writes screenplays. She sold her first screenplay at the age of twenty-four to Paramount Pictures. Her screenplays include Made in America, Collision Course: The Crocodile Hunter Movie, Angels in the Outfield, and The Big Green, which she also directed. She has written several books including I'll Be There, Keeper, and Counting By 7s.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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