Leahs' Lions
By John Dony
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Mr. Hemmings was a really mean man who hated the lions at the Nature Preserve. But Leah isn't powerless against him. She has a map, determination, and friends willing to help her save the last two lion cubs. There's that, and she has a deep love for Africa and the animals that live there. Join her and Gio, as they travel across the perilous countryside in an exciting quest to deliver the cubs to safety.
John Dony
I was born in Bedford 1967 and studied English Literature in Dunstable where I grew up, I now live in Devon with my wife Jill and 5 daughters.My early writing career consisted mostly of short stories told to my children. My first children's novel ‘Emily and the Spider' has received praise from schools and Libraries across the world, where it has been used as a study aid for Primary school pupils in Story and Character development.My latest book Victoria Swan is part 2 of the Swan Trilogy and is available from my site as an ebook.I have a Passion for telling stories that value love, friendship, good old fashioned story telling, good vs bad and of course happy endings.
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Leahs' Lions - John Dony
Leah’s Lions
Leah's Lions
By
John Dony
Smashwords Edition
Copyright © John Dony 2008
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The right of John Dony to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
First published in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Shedbetter Publications
Cover Illustration by Naomi Powell
Leah’s Lions’
Table of Contents
Prologue, (a little bit at the beginning)
Chapter 1 Keep on Rolling
Chapter 2 Africa and the reserve
Chapter 3 Leah
Chapter 4 Mr Igbokwe and his Dog.
Chapter 5 New Life
Chapter 6 What’s a dung Beetle?
Chapter 7 Leah’s discovery
Chapter 8 Journey begins and a heartless killing
Chapter 9 McArthur and the Hippo
Chapter 10 Bones
Chapter 11 Snakes, on the plain.
Chapter 12 Nowhere to run.
Chapter 13 Mr Igbokwe’s family reunion.
Chapter 14 Leslie’s end
Chapter 15 Monsoon
Chapter 16 Bite marks and mines.
Chapter 17 Nothing lasts forever.
Chapter 18 Home and the Black poo.
Chapter 19 Leaving
Chapter 20 15 years Later
Epilogue.
Prologue, (a little bit at the beginning).
People like to move about on this world.
I think they call it ‘itchy feet’, or perhaps sometimes they say ‘The grass is greener’.
And some people like to stay in one place, happy just to be where they are.
When you are just nine years old you probably fall into both categories, wanting to be somewhere else…and happy to be where you are.
This is a story about two very different people, one who wants nothing more than to escape the life they are living, the other wanting no more than what is around them…
This is also a story about Lions. In fact just about now there is a Lioness, out on the wide open grasslands, not too far from where our story begins, about to give birth to her babies. Her little cubs, but we will come back to her soon…there are a few others to meet first…
Chapter 1 Keep on Rolling
It was baking hot, hotter than an oven. The massive sand dune loomed high over the small creature, it looked like an unclimable Mountain; at least it did to Gio. In fact when you are less than two inches long a flower pot looks like an unclimable mountain. Gio the small six legged dung beetle had been rolling this brown poo colour ball up and down the smaller sand dunes, for weeks now. You could say he was obsessed. But this is what dung beetles did, roll balls of poo. The sooner I get started the sooner, I can curl up in the shade of that lovely big white house
He said out loud as he hugged his ball of poop lovingly. The sun beat down relentlessly for hours as the little creature painstakingly rolled and pushed his ball up the sand dune. Come on Gio, don’t you go giving up on me now
His words of encouragement to himself helped a little, and as he looked up he realised he was only a few feet away from the top of the Sand mountain. Nearly their, now hold fast, be strong just a few more pushes and we will be over the top, yes over the top and on our way back home!
Just then, high up in the sky, a large hawk cast a shadow across the sand as it flew passed. "Oh, how