West with Giraffes

This is a special book. Chosen for our book club for some lighter fare, we were all besotted with this teenage bowl dust surviving narrator. Set amid the backdrop of Hitler's march across Europe in 1938, this story chronicles some truly epic pieces of American history-most of which we had read little about. The hurricane that hammered New England, the devastating Dust Bowl, the Great Depression and central to it all- the real life story of the two African giraffes rescued then shipped across the Atlantic. Here the author creates a delightful story for the characters on this improbable cross country journey. With a beautiful narrative voice, she puts the reader right in that flatbed truck, safely along for a wild ride. Highly recommend this one. Good clean literary fun.