Threatened / Eliot Schrefer.
Luc is an orphan, living in debt slavery in Gabon, until he meets a Professor who claims to be studying chimpanzees, and they head off into the jungle--but when the Professor disappears, Luc has to fend for himself and join forces with the chimps to save their forest.
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- ISBN: 9780545551434
- Physical Description: 277 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Scholastic Press, 2014.
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Subject: | Orphans > Gabon > Juvenile fiction. Chimpanzees > Juvenile fiction. Animal rescue > Juvenile fiction. Wildlife rescue > Juvenile fiction. Gabon > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Action and adventure fiction. |
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Threatened
*A 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*When he was a boy, Luc's mother would warn him about the "mock men" living in the trees by their home -- chimpanzees whose cries would fill the night.Luc is older now, his mother gone. He lives in a house of mistreated orphans, barely getting by. Then a man calling himself Prof comes to town with a mysterious mission. When Luc tries to rob him, the man isn't mad. Instead, he offers Luc a job.Together, Luc and Prof head into the rough, dangerous jungle in order to study the elusive chimpanzees. There, Luc finally finds a new family -- and must act when that family comes under attack.As he did in his acclaimed novel ENDANGERED, a finalist for the National Book Award, Eliot Schrefer takes us somewhere fiction rarely goes, introducing us to characters we rarely get to meet. The unforgettable result is the story of a boy fleeing his present, a man fleeing his past, and a trio of chimpanzees who are struggling not to flee at all.