Description For children who like facts about elephants, or kids interested in Asia and Africa, comes Hope for Elephants , a DK Reader designed to improve reading skills while keeping kids engaged and entertained. In Hope for Elephants , David joins his Grandma on a trip to Asia and Africa to study the problems elephants are facing. They spend a week as volunteers at an Asian elephant sanctuary in Sri Lanka, caring for the elephants. Then they fly to Kenya to meet the anti-poaching patrol, staff and researchers at a nature reserve. Find out more about elephants and the dangers they face in this compelling book for young readers. At the end of Hope for Elephants , we learn that elephants can have a hopeful future when we help protect them. Develop your child's reading skills with DK Readers , a multi-level reading program designed to capture your child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge. A wide variety of subjects allows you to choose a topic that interests your child and develop reading skills around it. Children ages 4 through 9 will find the perfect books for their appropriate reading levels to develop the reading skills needed to improve school projects and independent reading.