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Nine year old Will just heard that his father is dead. His grandmother suggested that he and his mother should go on holiday in India for some time out. For Christmas he gets to ride on a real life elephant on the beach, called Oona. But Oona is acting strange, and Will soon finds out why... As the tsunami hits, Oona runs into the jungle with Will still on her back. He yells at her to stop, but she moves deeper into the jungle, even when the tsunami is long gone. As the days pass, Will learns to trust Oona. Her instincts always seem to be right and she easily finds them food. But everything changes when they meet a group of orang-utans. A group of orang-utans who are captured by illegal traders. And so is Will... Is he ever going to make it back to safety and civilisation? Does he even want to? There where a few things that bothered me in the book. First, when the tsunami hits, Will yells at Oona to run faster. Then at her to stop, but then he gets scared and yells at her to run again....