Book description
From National Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer comes the compelling tale of a girl who must save a group of bonobos -- and herself -- from a violent coup.
Congo is a dangerous place, even for people who are trying to do good.When Sophie has to visit her mother at…Why read it?
2 authors picked Endangered as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is my only other fiction pick. I read this many years ago, when it was new, but it stayed with me. We see a lot of relationships between people and dogs or people and horses, but this is a novel about a girl and a group of bonobos. That’s an interesting twist on the human/animal relationship, because other primates are so similar to us in their intelligence and approach to the world. They are mostly helpless against human forces, but then again so are young girls. The bonds formed in this book are worth the price of admission, and…
From Catherine Ryan's list on The best books about animals by people who actually understand them.
No realism is spared in this gripping story of an American girl at a bonobo sanctuary in the Congo that’s brutally overrun in a spasm of civil war. This is a powerful narrative, vividly written, with mind-opening honesty about what two species of primates (bonobo and human) are capable of in life-threatening situations.
From Doug's list on The best YA novels that place an American kid in another culture.
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