Baboon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781554510535)

Fourteen-year-old Gerry Copeland has mixed feelings about flying back to his parents' research camp in the African savanna. While his biologist mom and dad study baboon behavior, he'll be thinking about the video arcade and restaurants back in the city. Suddenly, their small plane's engine stutters and dies. They go down hard. Gerry wakes up thinking a baboon has broken his fall. He's shocked to realize the furry arm is his own. Somehow, he's become one of the beasts his parents are studying. Gerry's only chance is to stay with the baboon troop. His parents don't recognize him and he begins to lose hope he'll ever be human again. His final, desperate bid to turn back means giving up the animal family he's come to care about for the human family where he truly belongs. Baboon is the riveting story of one teenager's journey into the heart of the baboon world, where he confronts terrifying attacks by predators and humans, threatening behavior within the troop, and the day-to-day struggle to survive.

Author: David Jones
ISBN-10: 1554510538
ISBN-13: 9781554510535
Publisher: Annick Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.27h x 4.99w x 0.36d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 114113 / Baboon


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 04/15/2007 pg. 393
Booklist 05/01/2007 pg. 86
Quill & Quire 05/01/2007 pg. 50
School Library Journal 06/01/2007 pg. 148