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Walters, Eric

Elephant Secret

345 pp. | Clarion | August, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-328-79617-2 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-328-47677-7
(3) 4-6 Walters's novel centers on thirteen-year-old Samantha, who lives with her dad in an elephant sanctuary. There's plenty of solid information about elephants, and Samantha's rapport with the herd will endear her to animal-lovers. An intriguing twist involving a woolly mammoth cloned from permafrost-harvested DNA raises thought-provoking ethical, emotional, and legal issues; an author's note on the science of cloning insists this is "not science fiction."
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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