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Can I read The White Elephant on EtoBox?
The White Elephant by Fleischman, Sid is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The White Elephant about?
How can a beautiful white elephant be a terrible curse? Run-Run, a young elephant trainer, discovers the answer when he incurs the fury of the prince. The boy's punishment? The gift of an elephant, white as a cloud. From that moment forward, the curse reveals itself. According to tradition, so rare an elephant cannot be allowed to work for its keep. It is poor Run-Run who must feed the beast the hundreds of pounds of food it eats each day, and scrub it clean, and brush its pom-pom of a tail, and
Who reads The White Elephant?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Fleischman, Sid
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061964916
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (76 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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