Rescued / Eliot Schrefer.
Material type:
TextSeries: Ape quartet ; 3Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780545655033
- 054565503X
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Schrefer Eliot | Available | 33111008176600 | |||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Schrefer Eliot | A3 | Available | 33111008429975 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer comes an unbelievable story of survival.
Raja has been raised in captivity. Not behind the bars of a zoo, but within the confines of an American home. He was stolen when he was young to be someone's pet. Now he's grown up . . . and is about to be sent away again, to a place from which there will be no return.
John grew up with Raja. The orangutan was his friend, his brother -- never his pet. But when John's parents split up and he moved across the country, he left Raja behind. Now Raja is suffering.
There's one last chance to save Raja -- a chance that will force John to confront his fractured family and the captivity he's imposed on himself all of these years.
Eliot Schrefer's last two novels, Endangered and Threatened , were both finalists for the National Book Award. With Rescued , he brings his remarkable storytelling to the American landscape, giving us a boy who must redefine his own humanity and an orangutan who will need his help in order to return home.
When John was ten years old his father brought back a baby orangutan from Indonesia, and Raja quickly becomes John's "brother" and responsibility--so years later, after his parents divorce, and his father has sold Raja to a roadside zoo, John sets out to rescue him and bring him to a sanctuary in Indonesia.
Includes bibliographical references.