Chaya，一个严肃，直言不讳的英雄，带领她的朋友和一头华丽的大象在丛林中进行了一场喧闹，令人担忧，欢乐的冒险，那里革命正在进行，水蛭潜伏着。偷了女王的珠宝是这伙勇敢的人一切的开始还是结束?封面插图由大卫迪恩。《偷象的女孩》就像一袋皇家珠宝一样丰富、耀眼、诱人，就像一只吹着号角的大象一样胜利!我很喜欢。——《有鸡腿的房子》的作者苏菲·安德森:穿越丛林的快节奏冒险。我喜欢蔡雅的精神和决心，也喜欢她在这一路中建立起的友谊。我觉得我和茶雅还有她的朋友们在一起。《偷大象的女孩》是一部最好的冒险片;一个谜，一个珠宝小偷，和一个大象在你身边逃进丛林。 - Gill Lewis, author of Sky Hawk Chaya, schoolgirl by day, thief by night, will steal your heart in this incredibly assured debut that's packed with adventure, friendship, and loyalty. - Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars This exciting debut, set on the lush island of ancient Sri Lanka, introduces us to a kick-ass heroine in Chaya, a young girl who robs the rich to help the poor in local villages Richly atmospheric, full of colour and passion, Farook is a writer to watch. - Sally Morris, Daily Mail Farook embeds her message in a cracking narrative and never lets us feel we're being preached to. Farook does not beat around the bush. Chaya looked at the bronze spear pointing at her neck, reads the novel's first sentence and in the ensuing 48 chapters, the pace rarely slackens. But she allows every character time to unravel, resulting in a deceptively dense adventure that will appeal to readers well into their teens. - Emily Bearn, Telegraph The Girl Who Stole an Elephant positively rustles with the textures of rural Sri Lanka. It introduces an author keen to write a love letter to her culture, and upend preconceptions too More like this, please. - Observer Farook's dazzling debut novel follows the stubborn jewel thief Chaya, her friends and the titular elephant through the Sri Lankan jungle in a beautifully paced story of friendship and revolution. - i Readers can still travel to new and exciting places from home with a great adventure story, like The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook. Set in Sri Lanka, this debut novel follows Chaya, who has a habit of stealing to help those in need, but taking the queen's jewels and the royal elephant means that she's now a target and needs to escape into the jungle. The vivid setting and fast-paced plot will have you captivated until the final page. - Scotsman