The Ape Star
From the Series Gecko Press Titles
In this award winning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who lives in a junkyard and a surprising friendship grows between them.
Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens and out step two thick hairy legs with muddy boots, followed by a belly as round as a barrel, and finally, a head like an overgrown pear. It's a gorilla!
Surely the orphanage won't let a gorilla adopt a child. But, to Jonna's horror, the gorilla chooses her...
Jonna sleeps in a hammock, and in the evenings the gorilla reads Dickens in her worn armchair. It turns out Jonna and the gorilla have a lot in common. But just when they've started to get along, a man from the council threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage.
The Ape Star is a heartwarming and unconventional chapter book about love, adoption, friendship, and seeing from different perspectives.
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Interest Level | Grade 2 - Grade 5 |
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Reading Level | Grade 3 |
Copyright | 2022 |
BISACS | JUV013010 |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Lerner |
Imprint | Gecko Press |
Series | Gecko Press Titles |
Language | English |
Number of Pages | 200 |
Lexile | 530 |
ISBN | 9781776574216 |
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Title Format | Hardcover |
Release Date | 2022-09-06 |
Dewey | FIC |
Dimensions | 5.7 x 8 |