I loved THE ELEPHANT’S GIRL (or I wouldn’t be posting about it). And she finally solves the mystery of “who is Lex Willow?” She faces her own fears and ventures beyond the safety zone of her zoo. She meets a forgetful ghost who hints at a long lost treasure. Nyah’s message catapults Lex into an adventure that changes her life forever. Nyah, her rescuer, seeks her out and sends her a telepathic message about the woods outside the zoo. She’s finally old enough to help with the training of the elephants. Now Lex is twelve and the mystery of her past plagues her in more ways than one. Also her school mates taunt her as “that elephant girl.” So Lex retreats from their teasing into the comforting familiarity of her zoo. For one thing, the wind speaks to her (not always kindly). Lex soon discovers she’s not like the others. With no memories of her life before the tornado and no trace of a family, she’s raised by her foster father, Roger, the zoo’s train engineer. She’s found as a toddler after the tornado in the elephant pen, protected from the storm by one of the zoo’s elephants, Nyah. The story centers around a Nebraska youth who is the tragic survivor of a tornado that ravaged an area around and through a zoo.
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