This book was about Martine going to another country to help her grandmother's friend with a broken leg. I thought this book was inspiring of what we should do in real life. Late 3rd or 4th grade and up, girls and boys. Lots of action, exotic setting, puzzles and mysteries to be solved, and kids who reason out what needs to be done next. In the end good prevails and it all turns out well. They survive a kidnapping and being lost in underground tunnels.
They meet the leopard and Martine is able to communicate with it. The kids meet tribesmen who mostly see the leopard as sacred and a few who want to find the treasure at any cost.
In the meantime, the Black Eagle Resort is also threatened by someone who wants its land for minerals and there's a mystery about a hidden treasure buried somewhere on its land. While there the kids learn about the huge leopard that roams the hills and is threatened by a greedy game ranch where captured animals are restrained and then shot at close range by trophy collectors. She and her friend Ben accompany Martine's grandmother to the Black Eagle Resort in a remote region of Zimbabwe where the proprietor, a family friend, needs help because of a broken leg. She can tame and help animals which would normally not want people near them. Orphaned Martine, who lives with her grandmother on a game preserve in South Africa, has special abilities as an animal healer (think dog whisperer). This third African adventure is written with all the zest and skill that have endeared so many readers to THE WHITE GIRAFFE and DOLPHIN SONG.Įxcellent book, 3rd in the Animal Healer series by Lauren St. They must decide who their friends are, and who are enemies, as they race against time to save the world's rarest leopard and each other. They'll come face to face with Griffin, Mercy, Mr Ratcliffe (known as Rat), Magnus the hornbill, and a witch doctor, not to mention Khan, the last leopard. Far from home and the help of Grace and Tendai, and with Gwyn Thomas languishing, under false accusations, in jail, Martine and Ben must use every survival skill they possess. When they uncover a plot in which the fate of a magnificent leopard and the lost treasure of an African King are mysteriously linked, their friendship faces its greatest test. It is a lawless land, where nothing is as it seems. 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.
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