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For to See the Elephant

by Tammi J. Truax

Ages: 12+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Piscataqua Press

ISBN: 978-1-950381-05-0

Keywords: Poetry

Based on primary sources and told in verse, an enslaved African boy cares for the first elephants brought to post-colonial America. Author's note, discussion questions, sources.