The White Giraffe

The first of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series, featuring the adventures of a young orphan girl and a magical white giraffe in South Africa.

When she is eleven years old, Martine is orphaned and sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her grandmother seems strangely unwelcoming and Martine has a difficult time settling in at her new school, where she is conspicuously an outsider.

But there is one thing about her new home that intrigues her -- the rumours about a fabled white giraffe. One night Martine, lonely and feeling slightly rebellious too, looks out of her window and see it -- a young albino giraffe, silver, tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight. This is the beginning of her mysterious and magical adventures -- her discovery of her gift of healing and a secret valley that she travels to with the giraffe, where she find clues about her past and future.

A heart-warming story, full of charm, friendship, animals and a fantastic landscape.