Series: The White Giraffe Series

After Martine rescues an orphaned lion cub from a market, she dreams of keeping it forever. But Tau, the cub, already has a home. He’s been snatched from one of South Africa’s most famous wildlife reserves.   When Martine and her best friend Ben are invited to the reserve to help settle Tau in, they leap … Continued

When Sawubona’s white rhinos are attacked, the poachers leave behind an orphaned 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 be guarded from the poachers at … Continued

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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 what it seems. Whe they uncover a plot in which the fate of a magnificent leopard and … Continued

Winner of the 2009 KIND Children’s Book Award When disaster strikes a school trip, Martine and her classmates are left fighting for their lives in shark-infested waters, until dolphins guide them to a coral-ringed island. Here the castaways, at odds with each other, must learn to survive. Will Martine’s secret gift allow her to help … Continued

2007 Calderdale Award2007 Sefton Super Reads Award2007 Stockport Book Award2008 East Sussex Award2008 West Sussex Book Award2008 Hounslow Junior Book Award Martine is eleven when she is sent to live on a game reserve in Africa, a place where mysteries and secrets abound and the intoxicating magic of the savannah casts all sorts of spells. … Continued