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The White Giraffe Series: The Lion Cub's Secret
Book 2
Series: The White Giraffe Series
Brief Description
Imagine rescuing a lion cub . . . After Martine rescues an orphaned lion cub from a market, she dreams of keeping him forever. But Tau, the cub, already has a home. He's been snatched from one of South Africa's most famous game reserves. When Martine...
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Martine and Ben rescue a lion cub in this brand-new wildlife adventure story in Lauren St John's beloved and bestselling White Giraffe series.
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Imagine rescuing a lion cub . . .
After Martine rescues an orphaned lion cub from a market, she dreams of keeping him forever. But Tau, the cub, already has a home. He's been snatched from one of South Africa's most famous game reserves.
When Martine and her best friend Ben are invited to the reserve to help settle Tau in, they leap at the chance. But the beautiful wilderness is riddled with mysteries and secrets, and the lion cub's secret is the biggest of all.
As Martine and Ben start asking questions, they quickly discover that there are those who'll stop at nothing to get to Tau. Will the lonely lion cub ever be truly free?
Lauren St John's White Giraffe series has become internationally beloved. This is the perfect time to discover—or rediscover—this bestselling series.Series: The White Giraffe Series
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The White Giraffe Series: The Lion Cub's Secret
Imagine rescuing a lion cub . . . After Martine rescues an orphaned lion cub from a market, she dreams of keeping him forever. But Tau, the cub, already has a home. He's been snatched from one of South Africa's most famous game reserves. When Martine and her best friend Ben are invited to the reserve to help settle Tau...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The White Giraffe
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 she has an ally in Tendai—one of the keepers on the reserve—from whom...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The White Giraffe Series: Dolphin Song
It's June - winter in South Africa, and Martine and her grandmother are enjoying a cold but beautiful walk along the beach when they find a stranded, dying dolphin. Martine uses her gift of healing to help it back to the ocean but it's only the latest in a series of inexplicable beachings of dolphins and whales - and the...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The White Giraffe Series: Operation Rhino
The fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling THE WHITE GIRAFFE series.When Sawubona's white rhinos are attacked, the poachers leave behind a terrified calf. Devastated but determined to help, Martine and Ben agree to take the rhino baby to a sanctuary near the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.But the sanctuary is hiding a precious secret - one that must...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The White Giraffe Series: The Last Leopard
Martine is looking forward to the holidays and riding Jemmy, her white giraffe, until an accident sends her and Ben on a journey to the Matobo Hills wilderness in Zimbabwe. It is a lawless land, where nothing is as it seems. When they uncover a plot in which the fate of a magnificent leopard and the lost treasure of an...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The White Giraffe 20th Anniversary Edition
The 20th anniversary edition of the beloved and bestselling The White Giraffe, featuring stunning new illustrations from David Dean. 'Lauren St John is the queen of kid's animal fiction, and her White Giraffe series is a veritable treasure trove of classic, wild adventure. Warm, emotional, stirring and heart-stopping in equal measure!' Ross Montgomery, author of I Am Rebel Martine is...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781510113848
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Orion Children's Books
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 173g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Lauren St John grew up surrounded by horses, dogs, cat, warthogs, and a giraffe on a farm and game reserve in Zimbabwe, the inspiration for her bestselling White Giraffe and One Dollar Horse series, and standalone novels, The Snow Angel and The Glory.
Her latest books are Finding Wonder. Wave Riders and the Wolfe & Lamb Mystery series. Kat Wolfe Investigates won the 2019 CrimeFest Best Crime Novel for Children, and Dead Man's Cove, the first in her Laura Marlin Mystery series, was the 2011 Blue Peter Book of the Year. A passionate conservationist, Lauren is an Ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, a Patron of Mane Chance Animal Sanctuary, and the founder of Authors4Oceans. When not writing or saving leopards and dolphins, she is a full-time valet to her cats, Skye and Teddy.Also by Lauren St John
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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 she has an ally in Tendai—one of the keepers on the reserve—from whom...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The White Giraffe Series: Operation Rhino
The fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling THE WHITE GIRAFFE series.When Sawubona's white rhinos are attacked, the poachers leave behind a terrified calf. Devastated but determined to help, Martine and Ben agree to take the rhino baby to a sanctuary near the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.But the sanctuary is hiding a precious secret - one that must...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream is to win the world's greatest Three Day Event: the Badminton Horse Trials.When she rescues a starving, half-wild horse, she's convinced that the impossible can be made possible. But she has reckoned without the consequences of her father's...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The White Giraffe Series: Dolphin Song
It's June - winter in South Africa, and Martine and her grandmother are enjoying a cold but beautiful walk along the beach when they find a stranded, dying dolphin. Martine uses her gift of healing to help it back to the ocean but it's only the latest in a series of inexplicable beachings of dolphins and whales - and the...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Martine is looking forward to the holidays and riding Jemmy, her white giraffe, until an accident sends her and Ben on a journey to the Matobo Hills wilderness in Zimbabwe. It is a lawless land, where nothing is as it seems. When they uncover a plot in which the fate of a magnificent leopard and the lost treasure of an...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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The White Giraffe 20th Anniversary Edition
The 20th anniversary edition of the beloved and bestselling The White Giraffe, featuring stunning new illustrations from David Dean. 'Lauren St John is the queen of kid's animal fiction, and her White Giraffe series is a veritable treasure trove of classic, wild adventure. Warm, emotional, stirring and heart-stopping in equal measure!' Ross Montgomery, author of I Am Rebel Martine is...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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