Orphaned (Ape Quartet #4): Volume 4 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780545655057)

In National Book Award finalist Endangered, Eliot Schrefer showed a human's first encounter with an ape. Now comes this astonishing story of a family of gorillas' first encounter with a human.

Before humans, and before human history, there were the apes.Snub is a young gorilla, living in the heart of what will eventually be known as Africa. She is jealous of her mother's new baby . . . and restless in her need to explore. When a natural disaster shakes up her family, Snub finds herself as the guardian of her young sibling . . . and lost in a reshaped world.Snub may feel orphaned, but she is not alone. There are other creatures stalking through the woods -- a new form of predator, walking on two legs. One of their kind is also orphaned, and is taken in by Snub. But the intersection of the human world and the gorilla world will bring both new connections and new battles.In his boldest work yet, two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer shows us a riveting, heartbreaking early encounter between ape and man -- told from the ape's point of view. It is a journey unlike any other in recent literature.

Author: Eliot Schrefer
ISBN-10: 0545655056
ISBN-13: 9780545655057
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2018
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 196781 / Orphaned


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2018
School Library Journal 10/01/2018 pg. 70
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw