Hörmann, Mila: Giraffe Raffaela (gebundenes Buch)

Die Giraffe Raffaela lebt mit ihren Freunden in Afrika.
Eines Tages stellt sie sich die Frage, wie groß oder wie klein sie
sich eigentlich machen kann. Als sie sich entscheidet, sie kann
sich so klein machen wie ein Zwerg, keimt in ihr der Gedanke,
Zwerge zu finden. Da beginnt eine lange und abenteuerliche
Reise, die Raffaela in Gegenden führt, in denen eine Giraffe
wohl noch nie gesehen worden ist. Am Ende findet sie alles,
was sie sich erträumt hat. Nur ein bisschen mehr.

It would have been hard to have missed what was written on the wall. Painted in giant whitewashed letters: 'SHARKEY IS A GRASS'.I hadn't a clue who Sharkey was, but I knew one thing. 'Sharkey's a dead man,' I said.Leo knows the value of never grassing and that you never grass on your friends. Everybody, too, knows the gang leaders in town. And you don't grass on them. Not unless you don't value your life - like Sharkey. And then Leo is unlucky enough to witness the murder of one gang leader by another, a man called Armour. Leo is petrified as he realises what he is witnessing and even more petrified when he realises that Armour has seen him. Sure that he is drawing his own last breath, Leo silently says goodbye to his family and everybody he knows. But all Armour does is wink at Leo, very slowly, and leave the scene of the crime. Leo draws a long breath of relief. He has got away with it. But he hasn't - not really. Leo will live to regret that wink and realise that Armour has an insidious hold on him and his family,which will test his family relationships, and his very sense of what is right and wrong. It will take bravery, luck and sheer daring to extricate himself from Armour's deadly web.A riveting and hard-hitting new novel from Cathy MacPhail.