Some of these words might be hard for the reader that is younger than a middle school student to follow or understand. This book is aimed for middle school students because of the word choice the author uses. It was satisfying and there wasn’t a cliffhanger ending, making you need to read the next book in the series. The book also has a good ending that won’t be upsetting to the reader.

John 26) I thought that the author described her very well and the descriptions that the author used made me able to picture her very well. She was wearing a traditional African dress in the most brilliant colors, with matching headscarf of banana yellow, Kalahari red, and lime green.” ( St.

“Martine turned around to see one of the fattest women she had ever encountered waddling toward her across the threadbare lawn. The author describes a character in the story named Grace very well. I thought that the characters were relatable, which helped contribute to the mood in the story. The characters are realistic and are described well in the story. It is easy to follow the book and to understand what is going on. Inside this story, the author sets up the book very well and organized. This helped me have a better picture in my mind of what's happening and how the characters and animals looked like. There is a narrator in the story and they are emotional and really describes the characters and the setting to the audience very well. I really enjoyed how the emotion affects the story because it made the characters more realistic and more believable.

The voice in this story gives a lot of emotion, and by having that emotion, more details came out and I could picture the story better. I would definitely recommend this book because of the voice the author uses to tell the story. Had she seen it? Is it really a white giraffe? A split second later the sky goes dark and it’s gone. But one night while it was storming, Martine looked out her window, and thought she saw a tall, silvery creature near the watering hole. Even her grandmother says that is a legend. They say that no one has ever seen the animal, but it leaves footprints behind. When Martine arrives, she hears about the legends of the White Giraffe. Her only living relative was her grandma, who lived in Africa. This story is about a girl named Martine, whose parents died in a fire on her eleventh birthday in England. The author of The White Giraffe is Lauren St. Martine cried a lot at night ever since she had moved to Africa. “Had she seen the giraffe or hadn’t she? Could it have been a trick of the light?” Martine wondered this during a storm when she looked out the window.

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