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Belfast (Irlande du Nord) Histoire 1941 (Bombardement) Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Belfast (Northern Ireland) History Bombardment, 1941 Fiction Elephants Fiction Gardiens de jardin zoologique Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Human-animal relationships Fiction Jardins zoologiques Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Relations homme-animal Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Zoo keepers Fiction Éléphants Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesseWalsh, S. Kirk
Summary: "Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction WalshRankin, Ellan
Summary: Inspired by a true story, a remarkable friendship between a baby elephant and her keeper shows that kindness is never forgotten. Includes a note about the zookeeper named Denise Weston Austin who protected the baby Asian elephant named Sheila during World War II in Belfast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RANWalsh, S. Kirk
Summary: "The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021