Everything you need to understand or teach West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge.
Lynda Rutledge’s West With Giraffes is a thrilling work of historical fiction that details Woodrow Wilson Nickel’s coming of age story during the Great Depression. Employing a first-person narrative style, Rutledge recreates the true story of the first transcontinental giraffe transport through the eyes of a Depression-era orphan struggling to find his own way in the world. His journey leads him to encounter the full breadth of human nature, from the basest evil to the most inexplicable generosity. The novel traces the arc of Woody’s growth into maturity, and explores themes of memory and the passing of time, friendship with animals, the kindness of strangers, and the search to find a true home.
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