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The Lady Anna
I had no idea this was based on a true story! I loved this book in grade school and I loved it again 20 years later. it holds up brilliantly to time and I can't wait to research the actual girl it is based on!


p. 161 - Nor did I kill another wild dog, nor did I try to spear another sea elephant. Ulape would have laughed at me, and others would have laughed, too--my father most of all. Yet this is the way I felt about the animals who had become my friends and those who were not, but in time could
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