Endangered (Ape Quartet Series#1)
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780545165778 |
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| Publisher: | Scholastic, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 01/07/2014 |
| Series: | Ape Quartet Series , #1 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Sales rank: | 82,347 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
| Age Range: | 12 - 17 Years |
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This book was worse than I expected
I chose this book because it looked like an adventure book. I thought this book would be about a boy trying to protect his monkey from people who wanted to kill the monkey for its skin, so he had to run away. Turns out the book wasn’t what I expected, it was actually about a girl in Congo trying protect her bonobo and to survive while a civil war broke out and nowhere was safe. The girl's name is Sophie and the book actually was an adventure book. I disliked this book because it said some swear words towards the end. Also because when the bad people killed other people they stripped them and metal staked them through the ground, I didn't know this book was going to be like this. Overall I think ten and under should not read this book and I think I will give it a two star rating.
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I honsetly loved this book! Imonly 11 and i.really enjoyed it!
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"Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer was quite some thrill of a read. Truly the novel was a well written read of the real issues of the 'terrifyingly real world of the Democratic Repuglic of the Congo.' The story was of a young girl named Sophie(half white and half black) who was very responsible and courageous...a protagonist, and her journey to get away from violence that was all around her while she was protecting a bonobo(Otto). Now you may be asking just what is a 'Bonobo?' As you read "Endangered" you will see how this heroine was able to grow and even mature as she goes about to save this one bonobo all by herself. I found this read a page turner because it was hard to put down until the very end. This fast paced storytelling was simply off the chart good! In your read you will see just why saving the bonobos were so important. The author did a very good job at illustrating this relationship between the human and animals. For Sophie will find 'love, friendship and compassion. "Endangered" is very emotional and a very intriguing story that will leave you saying 'Wow!'...what a good read only leaving you with the thought of those who ework with these 'Bonobos' are truly amazing people.
With that being said...Yes, I would recommend this novel as a excellent read not only for the young...as a adult I really enjoyed this read.
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Endangered is a very different type of YA novel. I would have LOVED this book as a pre-teen. I was pretty obsessed with Jane Goodall and her work with chimpanzees, Gorillas in the Mist, and Matthew Broderick’s Project X. (I still love that movie!) Sophie lives in Miami with her father, but every summer she goes back to Congo, where she was born, to stay with her mother, who runs a bonobo sanctuary there. On her way to the sanctuary this summer, Sophie runs into a desperate man trying to sell a baby bonobo. Knowing it’s a bad idea to buy bonobos, but not knowing what else she can do to get this baby to her mother, Sophie gives the man all of her American money and becomes a “mother”.
Baby bonobos die without their mothers. They need close contact with them for the first 5 years of their lives. Sophie’s mother is very mad at her, but she allows her to mother Otto anyway because she’s trying to teach her a lesson. Otto is not allowed into the nursery with the other baby bonobos and the “mamas” until they’re sure he doesn’t have any viruses. Sophie lives in her mother’s office at the sanctuary and parents Otto 24/7.
Right after her mother goes to a remote location in the country to release some mature bonobos into the wild, all hell breaks loose when the president is killed and militant rebels take over. Sophie manages to escape an attack on the sanctuary and live in the enclosure with Otto and a bunch of rehabilitated bonobos. This is where it got interesting!
I enjoyed all of the bonobo information and Sophie’s adventure and struggles to keep herself and Otto alive during the turmoil in Congo. It was refreshing to read a YA book that was about parental love instead of romantic love. Both Sophie’s relationship with Otto and her relationships with her own parents were very interesting.
But this book was kind of slow. It’s only 250 pages, but it seemed to take me forever to get through. It wasn’t as suspenseful as I would have hoped. And because Sophie is on her own with only bonobos, there is almost no dialogue.
This book was enjoyable, but not lovable. It’s the first book in a quartet where each book is a different story about humans and an ape species (bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas). I’m curious about the other books, but I am going to let my book club mates try them first. They both enjoyed this book a lot more than I did since they’re bigger animal lovers.
http://opinionatedbooklover.com/review-endangered-by-eliot-schrefer/
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I loved this book! What a great introduction to great apes, and especially the less known Bonobos. A really engaging plot, with a great conservation message!
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Endangered by Eliot Schrefer (2012)
If you follow the book award season, you've probably already heard about this National Book Award Finalist from 2012.
Either way Endangered is an Important book about the political unrest in the Congo and the horrible state of affairs for Bonobo monkeys in the area. Sophie spends every summer with her mother in the Congo and expects this year to be much of the same. Until she becomes the reluctant (and unlikely) foster mother to a baby Bonobo she names Otto. Then war breaks out and Sophie is isolated and trapped with the Bonobos at her mother's conservation preserve.
Schrefer went to the Congo to research this book and it shows in the details and nuances of the setting and Sophie's relationship with Otto and the other Bonobos. The story is gripping and exciting. Because of the emphasis on action and survival, this is a great book for any reader. Endangered would also be a particularly strong choice for reluctant readers and/or readers who are hesitant to read books with a female narrator.
Reading Endangered it is immediately obvious why this book was a National Book Award finalist. As the story progresses it is also apparent why this book did not ultimately win. While Sophie and Otto are great characters in a page-turning story, Sophie's voice was not always convincing. Sophie is fourteen during the events of the story. While her narration is insightful and contemplative, it also often sounds like a much older character. The epilogue is also frustrating. Without getting into spoilers it felt very incongruous to have an epilogue years later and have one of the supposed key things about Sophie's life be that she is engaged and has dated several boys. There were so many other things to say, other details to share. After a totally empowering, dramatic read the epilogue brought Endangered to a close on a slightly sour note.
*This book was acquired for review from the publisher at BEA 2012*
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Well based on my opinion of the book Endabgered by Eliot Schrefer, I truly believe that this novel is one of the best that I have ever read because when I first read the book, I really got interested into the book by reading the first few chapters. This book lead me into trying to read more of the book and how it plays out. The stories theme about survival of Endangered is similarly compared to Life of Pi because both main characters, Pi and Sophie, had a companion by their side. In Endangered, Sophie had Otto which has a bonobo as her companion while Pi has Richard Parker as his companion to show them support.
I recommend people who are reading my review and people who has not read this book actually read the book.
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A horribly written bland and emotionless tale about ignorance.
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I liked the book a lot. When i started reading it i just couldnt stop myself.
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I knew I was going to like Endangered long before I read the first page; I'm a sucker for animal books. I've never read an animal book I didn't like. That didn't mean Endangered was going to be a good book.
Endangered was a good book.
I was sucked into it with the first paragraph; the writing was beautiful, and the bonobos won my heart over. I can remember each of their names in the stories, even if I can't tell you a name of a single human character. They were the stars of the show, their goofiness and animal ferocity making them more memorable than most characters I encounter on a daily basis.
There were still issues with it; as the revolution went on, there were a few scenes that seemed scattered and out of place - for instance, our main character has to rescue Otto from a young soldier, and that entire scene felt... odd and unnecessary, because the plot and characters didn't develop from the scene. (Of course, I have an ARC; that may have been cut out in the final version, but I doubt it.)
However, the lyrical writing and the bonobos - Otto! Songolia! I even liked Anastasia. - make the book more than worth the read, and by the end of the story, you may want to throw yourself into the Congo to go work with bonobos. I know I do.
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Enjoyable. I even cried at certain parts.
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Hi i am krystah and i love this book im only on page 22 and may i say this is one of the bestest books i have ever read so i juss gotta say to keep writing awesome booka jussike this i hope to be a book writer juss like yuu and write a book kinda like yours i mean yuu inspire me and thats probly good news for yuu so goodbye and i hope yuu like my review so byebye
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Is this book ok for children? Is it appropriate? Please answer my question i need to know. THANKS!! :)
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Thank you mrsvaljones for ruining this book by revealing every plot point. Just another book i cannit buy because yiu ruined it. Bn, another sale lost!
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