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Scholastic Press

Book Review: Orphaned by Eliot Schrefer

September 29, 2019April 16, 2019 by Mindy Mejia

This imagined prehistory is undeniably the crowning achievement in Schrefer’s ape quartet, at once brimming with hope and loss, love and cruelty, constantly challenging the reader to question, in six hundred thousand years, how much and how little we’ve evolved.

Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Endangered Species, Fiction, Poetry, Scholastic Press

Book Review: Rescued

September 29, 2019April 24, 2016 by Mindy Mejia

Rescued, Eliot Schrefer’s third entry in his anticipated quartet of ape novels published by Scholastic, represents a departure in many ways from the first two books in the series. Endangered and …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Endangered Species, Fiction, Scholastic Press

Book Review: Threatened by Eliot Schrefer

September 29, 2019July 31, 2014 by Mindy Mejia

Eliot Schrefer’s Threatened reads like a thematic sequel to his 2012 National Book Award finalist Endangered. Both books tell the story of a teenager who leaves human society in Africa for …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Endangered Species, Scholastic Press

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