The Elephant S Shoes

The Elephant's New Shoe

This sweet true story stars a tiny, orphaned elephant who was given another chance. When Chhouk, an Asian elephant calf, was found, he was alone, underweight, and had a severe foot injury. Conservationist Nick Marx of Wildlife Alliance rescued the baby elephant. With help from the Cambodian Forestry Administration, the Cambodian School of Prosthetics and Orthotics, and an elephant named Lucky, Nick nursed Chhouk back to health and made him an artificial foot. One of the first animals to ever be fitted with a prosthetic, Chhouk helped pioneer the technology -- and most importantly, was able to walk again!This true animal rescue story will satisfy animal lovers and capture the hearts of both young readers and their parents.

Elephant Shoe

If his sixteen years' experience has taught Mikey Alston only one thing, it's this:Life is too damn cruel to face alone...The ice took our car off the road.The tree wrecked it.Tate and I didn't make it out unscathed.My parents didn't make it out alive...I was eleven, and that's the day my whole world was ripped away from me.My brother, David, was twenty-one. All the family I had left, I needed him. He didn't need me.David sent me away. Packed me off far across the country from my home town in Devon - from Tate and everything I'd ever known, to live with grandparents I'd never known. Six years is a long time. But now I'm back.(Not through choice. Not mine, anyway).And Tate's still here.Only... he's not the boy I left behind.He won't speak to me. Won't speak to anyone.The one upshot of my return to a life I no longer fit and he's letting me down spectacularly.Well, Tate, here's the thing:I'm not giving up on you. I'm not everybody else. You can't shut me out. You need me - we need each other. And we will be friends again. Best friends.I'm decided.It's decided.

Let the Elephants Run