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* ProperlyParanoid: Tendai, the game warden, tells Martine to always keep her survival pack with her in case she needs it. Sure enough, she's shipwrecked in the same book.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Tendai, the game warden, tells Martine to always keep her survival pack with her in case she needs it. Sure enough, she's shipwrecked in the same book.
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* ElectiveMute: Ben is less selective, but still only speaks to his parents and Martine. The other students don't believe he can talk at all. In the second book, he opens up a bit more, and everyone is shocked that he ''talks''.
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* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: The pod of dolphins in ''Dolphin Song'' remain friendly throughout.
* GenialGiraffe: Martine's spirit animal is a giraffe. It's later revealed that Martine's bond with Jemmy is what gave her the power to heal.
* GenialGiraffe: Martine's spirit animal is a giraffe. It's later revealed that Martine's bond with Jemmy is what gave her the power to heal.
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* HeroicDolphin: In ''Dolphin Song'', Martine falls overboard during a storm while on a school trip aboard a boat. Several other students also fall overboard, and they are all rescued by a pod of dolphins.
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* MultipleChoiceChosen: Martine feels guilty about being chosen because she's not native to the region. Her mentor explains that every child has the chance to be chosen, but that Jemmy was looking for one with a very complicated, specific mix of heroic traits. It's not about race, or even moral superiority, but having the willingness and ability to do a very specific job. A job that involves healing animals all across the world, not just African ones.
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# ''The White Giraffe''
Giraffe'' (2006)
# ''DolphinSong''
Song'' (2007)
# ''The LastLeopard''
Leopard'' (2008)
# ''The Elephant'sTale''
Tale'' (2009)
# ''OperationRhino''
Rhino'' (2015)
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''Legend of the Animal Healer'' is a fantasy book series by Lauren St. John. It follows the adventures of Martine, a young British girl. After her parents are killed in a fire, she is sent to live on her grandmother's game reserve in South Africa. As she learns to love her new home, she discovers that she is TheChosenOne, gifted with the ability to magically heal any animal she touches. With the help of her new friends- Jemmy, a rare white giraffe, and Ben, an introspective boy shunned by the other students- she follows her destiny, saving wildlife across the world.
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''Legend of the Animal Healer'' is a fantasy book series by Lauren St. John. It follows the adventures of Martine, a young British girl. After her parents are killed in a fire, she is sent to live on her grandmother's game reserve in South Africa. As she learns to love her new home, she discovers that she is TheChosenOne, gifted with the ability to magically heal any animal she touches. With the help of her new friends- friends-- Jemmy, a rare white giraffe, and Ben, an introspective boy shunned by the other students- students-- she follows her destiny, saving wildlife across the world.
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* ButNotTooBlack: Martine is half-African, but feels completely British [[FishOutOfWater and has difficulty fitting into the culture her mother came from]]- especially because bullies at her new school insult her for being ''too white''.
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* ButNotTooBlack: ButNotTooWhite: Martine is half-African, but feels completely British [[FishOutOfWater [[HeritageDisconnect and has difficulty fitting into the culture her mother came from]]- from]]-- especially because bullies at her new school insult her for being ''too white''.
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* HealingHands: Martine, with the stipulation that it only works on animals. At first she can only barely do anything and has to cover the gaps with regular medicine, but her powers grow stronger through the books.
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''Legend of the Animal Healer'' is a fantasy book series by Lauren St. John. It follows the adventures of Martine, a young British girl. After her parents are killed in a fire, she is sent to live on her aunt's game reserve in South Africa. As she learns to love her new home, she discovers that she is TheChosenOne, gifted with the ability to magically heal any animal she touches. With the help of her new friends- Jemmy, a rare white giraffe, and Ben, an introspective boy shunned by the other students- she follows her destiny, saving wildlife across the world.
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''Legend of the Animal Healer'' is a fantasy book series by Lauren St. John. It follows the adventures of Martine, a young British girl. After her parents are killed in a fire, she is sent to live on her aunt's grandmother's game reserve in South Africa. As she learns to love her new home, she discovers that she is TheChosenOne, gifted with the ability to magically heal any animal she touches. With the help of her new friends- Jemmy, a rare white giraffe, and Ben, an introspective boy shunned by the other students- she follows her destiny, saving wildlife across the world.
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* ButNotTooBlack: Martine is half-African, but feels completely British [[FishOutOfWater and has difficulty fitting into the culture her mother came from]]- especially because bullies at her new school insult her for being ''too white''.
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* MightyWhitey: Discussed. Martine wonders why of all the people in Africa, it's a little white girl who has the power to heal animals. Grace says that it's her heart that led to her being chosen, and the animals themselves don't see a difference.
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The Animal Healer is identified by the power to ride a white giraffe.
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The Animal Healer is identified by the power to ride a white giraffe.
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* MightyWhitey: Discussed. Martine wonders why of all the people in Africa, it's a little white foreign biracial girl who has the power to heal animals. Grace says that it's her heart that led to her being chosen, and the animals themselves don't see a difference.
difference. (Note that TheChosenOne is prophecied to save ''all'' sorts of animals, not just African ones.)
* NatureIsNotNice: In one scene, Martine interrupts a pair of dueling antelopes because her child's mind reasons that fighting is bad. A nearby photographer tells her, rather annoyed, that fighting is a natural and necessary part of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection the species' survival]]. Also, he's been stalking the herd for ''hours'' waiting to get the perfect shot, [[YouJustRuinedTheShot and now he has to start all over again]].
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The Animal Healer is identified by the power to ride a whitegiraffe. giraffe.
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: Played with. Being/becoming the Animal Healer requires very specific proportions of various personality traits, of which selflessness is only one. Grace explains that ''many'' children could have done so, but they would had to have been brave enough to ride Jemmy, willing to believe that he was real, and adventurous enough to seize the brief opportunity they had to do so...and so on and so forth, until only one child is ''the'' Animal Healer.
* ProphecyTwist: Previous sangoma painted their visions on the walls of a cave. One of these paintings shows Martine at the center of a dolphin pod- which confuses her once she's lived through the event the painting represented, because it ''did'' happen, but Ben was next to her during it and the painting doesn't show him. Then she notices a little chip of rock that fell on the painting, and removes it. [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight Sure enough, there's a drawing of Ben behind it.]]
* NatureIsNotNice: In one scene, Martine interrupts a pair of dueling antelopes because her child's mind reasons that fighting is bad. A nearby photographer tells her, rather annoyed, that fighting is a natural and necessary part of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection the species' survival]]. Also, he's been stalking the herd for ''hours'' waiting to get the perfect shot, [[YouJustRuinedTheShot and now he has to start all over again]].
* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The Animal Healer is identified by the power to ride a white
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: Played with. Being/becoming the Animal Healer requires very specific proportions of various personality traits, of which selflessness is only one. Grace explains that ''many'' children could have done so, but they would had to have been brave enough to ride Jemmy, willing to believe that he was real, and adventurous enough to seize the brief opportunity they had to do so...and so on and so forth, until only one child is ''the'' Animal Healer.
* ProphecyTwist: Previous sangoma painted their visions on the walls of a cave. One of these paintings shows Martine at the center of a dolphin pod- which confuses her once she's lived through the event the painting represented, because it ''did'' happen, but Ben was next to her during it and the painting doesn't show him. Then she notices a little chip of rock that fell on the painting, and removes it. [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight Sure enough, there's a drawing of Ben behind it.]]
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Ben's focus on intellectual and practical matters puts him at odds with the other children. In ''Dolphin Song'', Martine blows up at him precisely because he's not perturbed by something she hates. (She later acknowledges it was cruel of her to do so.)
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* TheUnchosenOne: Ben has no magic, but he helps Martine on nearly all of her adventures because he's [[StumbledIntoThePlot her friend]] and he wants to do the right thing as much as she does. This is fortunate, because he has patience and survival skills that she lacks.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Ben's focus on intellectual and practical matters puts him at odds with the other children. In ''Dolphin Song'', Martine blows up at him precisely because he's not perturbed by something she hates. (She later acknowledges it was cruel of her to do so.)
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Ben's focus on intellectual and practical matters puts him at odds with the other children. In ''Dolphin Song'', Martine blows up at him precisely because he's not perturbed by something she hates.
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* HeroicAlbino: Jemmy, the titular white giraffe. At first they keep him secret to avoid poachers, but once the secret's out Gwyn decides to switch tactics and start showing him on tours to keep an eye on him.
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* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The Animal Healer is identified by the power to ride a white giraffe.
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''Legend of the Animal Healer'' is a fantasy book series by Lauren St St. John. It follows the adventures of Martine, a young British girl. After her parents are killed in a fire, she is sent to live on her aunt's game reserve in South Africa. As she learns to love her new home, she discovers that she is TheChosenOne, gifted with the ability to magically heal any animal she touches. With the help of her new friends- Jemmy, a rare white giraffe, and Ben, an introspective boy shunned by the other students- she follows her destiny, saving wildlife across the world.
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* TheBeastmaster: Downplayed. Martine is trusted by animals, but she can't truly control them, leading to some tense situations.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The good guys always remain unambiguously good, but as Martine matures she encounters more criminals with grey or [[ForcedIntoEvil outright sympathetic]] motivations. (Although that fact may ''invert'' the trope, since grey villains are so much nicer and easier to negotiate with than purely evil ones.) Fortunately, she is always able to find a solution that helps everyone.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The good guys always remain unambiguously good, but as Martine matures she encounters more criminals with grey or [[ForcedIntoEvil outright sympathetic]] motivations. (Although that fact may ''invert'' the trope, since grey villains are so much nicer and easier to negotiate with than purely evil ones.) Fortunately, she is always able to find a solution that helps everyone.
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* EvilPoacher: More than one villain, ranging from outsiders who don't care about the preserve to sympathetic people just trying to feed their families.
* GrayingMorality: The good guys always remain unambiguously good, but as Martine matures she encounters more criminals with grey or [[ForcedIntoEvil outright sympathetic]] motivations.
* MightyWhitey: Discussed. Martine wonders why of all the people in Africa, it's a little white girl who has the power to heal animals. Grace says that it's her heart that led to her being chosen, and the animals themselves don't see a difference.
* ProperlyParanoid: Tendai, the game warden, tells Martine to always keep her survival pack with her in case she needs it. Sure enough, she's shipwrecked in the same book.
* {{Robinsonade}}: In ''Dolphin Song'', Martine, Ben, and a bunch of [[TheBully mean kids]] from school end up stuck on an island. At first the mean kids try to take over, but they are soon forced to band together when it becomes obvious that Martine and Ben are the most competent ones.
* SecretKeeper: Grace, the sangoma. She knew that Martine was the giraffe rider from the moment she was born.
* SkepticismFailure: When Martine was born, Grace warned her parents about their daughter's destiny, and they dismissed her as a superstitious native. Then she pointed outside, where all kinds of animals had gathered outside the fence to welcome Martine into the world.
* TapOnTheHead: Averted. A man is bludgeoned into unconsciousness in ''The Elephant's Tale'' and spends the rest of the story in the hospital.
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* YouCantFightFate: Grace told Martine's family that she would be TheChosenOne, and they responded by taking her back to England to avoid this. Eleven years later, they were both killed and Martine was sent to South Africa.
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''Legend of the Animal Healer'' is a fantasy book series by Lauren St John. It follows the adventures of Martine, a young British girl. After her parents are killed in a fire, she is sent to live on her aunt's game reserve in South Africa. As she learns to love her new home, she discovers that she is TheChosenOne, gifted with the ability to magically heal any animal she touches. With the help of her new friends- Jemmy, a rare white giraffe, and Ben, a an introspective boy shunned by the other students- she follows her destiny, saving wildlife across the world.
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* BondCreatures: All animals instinctively trust Martine, but her bond with Jemmy is even deeper. From the beginning they implicitly understood that they were friends, and Jemmy allows her to ride him despite being- in all other respects- wild.
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* BondCreatures: All animals instinctively trust Martine, [[FriendToAllLivingThings Martine]], but her bond with Jemmy is even deeper. From the beginning they implicitly understood that they were friends, and Jemmy allows her to ride him despite being- being-- in all other respects- respects-- wild.
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''Legend of the Animal Healer'' is a fantasy book series by Lauren St John. It follows the adventures of Martine, a young British girl. After her parents are killed in a fire, she is sent to live on her aunt's game reserve in South Africa. As she learns to love her new home, she discovers that she is TheChosenOne, gifted with the ability to magically heal any animal she touches. With the help of her new friends- Jemmy, a rare white giraffe, and Ben, a introspective boy shunned by the other students- she follows her destiny, saving wildlife across the world.
Though each book is standalone, [[MythArc plentiful continuity references]] often spoil previous entries in the series.
# ''The White Giraffe''
# ''Dolphin Song''
# ''The Last Leopard''
# ''The Elephant's Tale''
# ''Operation Rhino''
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* BondCreatures: All animals instinctively trust Martine, but her bond with Jemmy is even deeper. From the beginning they implicitly understood that they were friends, and Jemmy allows her to ride him despite being- in all other respects- wild.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The good guys always remain unambiguously good, but as Martine matures she encounters more criminals with grey or [[ForcedIntoEvil outright sympathetic]] motivations. (Although that fact may ''invert'' the trope, since grey villains are so much nicer and easier to negotiate with than purely evil ones.) Fortunately, she is always able to find a solution that helps everyone.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Ben's focus on intellectual and practical matters puts him at odds with the other children. In ''Dolphin Song'', Martine blows up at him precisely because he's not perturbed by something she hates. (She later acknowledges it was cruel of her to do so.)
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Much effort goes into describing how wonderful every locale Martine visits is- the people, the nature, the food- even as various VillainOfTheWeek[=s=] undermine them.
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Though each book is standalone, [[MythArc plentiful continuity references]] often spoil previous entries in the series.
# ''The White Giraffe''
# ''Dolphin Song''
# ''The Last Leopard''
# ''The Elephant's Tale''
# ''Operation Rhino''
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%%* AllOfTheOtherReindeer:
* BondCreatures: All animals instinctively trust Martine, but her bond with Jemmy is even deeper. From the beginning they implicitly understood that they were friends, and Jemmy allows her to ride him despite being- in all other respects- wild.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The good guys always remain unambiguously good, but as Martine matures she encounters more criminals with grey or [[ForcedIntoEvil outright sympathetic]] motivations. (Although that fact may ''invert'' the trope, since grey villains are so much nicer and easier to negotiate with than purely evil ones.) Fortunately, she is always able to find a solution that helps everyone.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Ben's focus on intellectual and practical matters puts him at odds with the other children. In ''Dolphin Song'', Martine blows up at him precisely because he's not perturbed by something she hates. (She later acknowledges it was cruel of her to do so.)
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Much effort goes into describing how wonderful every locale Martine visits is- the people, the nature, the food- even as various VillainOfTheWeek[=s=] undermine them.
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