Text boxes set off on yellow backgrounds offer fast facts about each species described and clear explanations of complicated concepts. She includes chapters on jumping spiders, octopuses, honey bees and paper wasps, Argentine ants, mantis shrimps, box jellyfish and slime molds. The lack of a spine, or even a brain, doesn’t keep invertebrates from learning, remembering, and solving problems.ĭefining intelligence as “the ability to benefit and learn from experience and to apply that information to new situations,” the author of Elephant Talk (2011) provides fascinating examples of mindfulness, memory, and learning in a wide variety of invertebrates from earthworms to dragonflies and spider wasps. (map, author's note, author Q&A) (Adventure. Even if some hairbreadth escapes test credulity, this is a great next read for fans of our nearest ape cousins or survival adventure. The lessons Sophie learns about her childhood home, love and what it means to be endangered will resonate with readers. Realistic characters (ape and human) deal with disturbing situations described in graphic, but never gratuitous detail. Schrefer jumps from his usual teen suspense to craft this well-researched tale of jungle survival set during a fictional conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Unable to take Otto out of the country, she decides finding her mother hundreds of miles to the north is her only choice. War breaks out, and after missing a U.N. flight out, Sophie must hide herself and Otto from violent militants and starving villagers. A week before Sophie's to return home to her father in Miami, her mother must take advantage of a charter flight to relocate some apes, and she leaves Sophie with Otto and the sanctuary workers. Though her Congolese mother is not pleased Sophie paid for the ape, she is proud that Sophie works to bond with Otto, the baby. On her way to spend the summer at the bonobo sanctuary her mother runs, 14-year-old Sophie rescues a sickly baby bonobo from a trafficker. Congolese-American Sophie makes a harrowing trek through a war-torn jungle to protect a young bonobo.
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