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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2011
Jack Martel is obsessed with elephants. He knows everything about them. He knows that "even when in danger, a mother elephant would not leave her calf." But Jack's life is turned upside down when his own mother disappears during their camping trip on Maine's Mount Desert Island. What's an eleven-year-old boy to do? He has little money, home is too far away to walk, and the messages he leaves on his mother's cell phone go unanswered. He ca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More