Endangered
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Call Number: Teen Fiction / Schrefer, Eliot
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
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Eye-Opening Look at People & Apes
submitted by sdunav on June 16, 2014, 12:56pm
This is a story about a young teen whose mother runs a bonobo (aka pygmy chimpanzee) refuge in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Like "Bonobo Handshake" (a memoir about the real refuge that this story is based upon), "Endangered" contains some graphic violence and death.
It is still worth reading - especially for teens - and the details about our closest relatives among the primates are amazing. I just wouldn't give this to a younger or particularly senstive child....however, if your kid can handle the violence in "The Hunger Games", they can probably handle this. The problem is that Hunger Games is so science-fiction-y, while this is not. The civil war in "Endangered" is not real, but the machete deaths, starvation, United Nations evacuations, etc. that take place in this book are all too possibly real, and thus I think pack more of an emotional impact.
Great submitted by ECReader on July 9, 2015, 12:45pm This was an amazing book about a young girls everlasting love for her bonobo friend, even when a war breaks out seperating her from everything she ever knew. I loved this book and recommened it to teens.
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Scholastic Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 264 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 900
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780545165761
0545165768
SUBJECTS
Bonobo -- Fiction.
Apes -- Fiction.
Animal sanctuaries -- Fiction.
Wildlife rescue -- Fiction.
Divorce -- Fiction.
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Black people -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Fiction.