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2) Hug
Author
Series
BoBo books (Jez Alborough) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Bobo the chimp seeks hugs among various jungle animals and their young, but he does not get what he wants until he is reunited with his own parent.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Frances Stenzel was just trying to prove her scientific worth to her parents...instead, she reawakened her great-grandfather's secret and most terrible invention. Before it can destroy the town, she sets off after it...and she'll have to face...angry locals and an unexpected friendship...while the trail for the monster goes cold and time is running out before her science career, and the city itself, are doomed forever"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When animal behaviorist Guy Schermerhorn demonstrates on a TV game show that he has taught Sam, his juvenile chimp, to speak in sign language, Aimee Villard, an undergraduate at Guy's university, is so taken with the performance that she applies to become his assistant. A romantic and intellectual attachment soon morphs into an interspecies love triangle that pushes hard at the boundaries of consciousness and the question of what we know and how we...
Series
Darwin incident volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's eyes are on half-human, half-chimpanzee Charlie after the Animal Liberation Alliance orchestrates a mass shooting at his high school. The FBI wants to bring him in, the locals want hi out--but what are the ALA's true intentions? Why are they so fixated on Charlie? And whatcan they tell him about the mystery of his birth?"--Back cover.
Series
Darwin incident volume 2
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie--half human, half chimpanzee--has just entered high school. His parents simply want a normal life for him, but the terrorist group known as the Animal Liberation Alliance has other ideas. In spite of everything, Charlie's new friend Lucy is doing her best to help him fit in--until every parent's worst nightmare strikes Shrews High...!"--Publisher.
Series
Darwin incident volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Animal Liberation Alliance, an eco-terrorist organization, rescues a pregnant chimpanzee from an animal testing lab--only for it to give birth to a half-human, half-chimpanzee "humanzee" named Charlie! Fifteen years later, Charlie's human foster parents are finally ready to send him to a normal high school, where he makes his first friend: a human girl named Lucy. In the meantime, however, the ALA's stance has become ever more extreme, and now...
9) Yes
Author
Series
BoBo books (Jez Alborough) volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A young chimpanzee preparing for bedtime learns to say "Yes" when things suit him and "No" when they do not.
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