Endangered By Eliot Schrefer

Endangered by Eliot Schrefer

This is a really good book about a girl named Sophie, who is African. Although she lives in Miami, Florida, Sophie visits her mom in Congo, every summer. Sophie's mom and dad are divorced, and her mom works at a sanctuary for bonobos, (a type of ape.) which is really big. On the way to the sanctuary, Sophie sees a traveler holding a baby bonobo and falls in love with him immediately, and buys him from the traveler. Sophie and the bonobo become good friends, and the bonobo, named Otto, considers Sophie his mom. A few days before Sophie has to go back to Miami at the end of the summer, her mom must leave with a handful of bonobos for a few days to a enclosure. One day, the United Nations evacuation truck arrives and says that Sophie must leave because a war has started in the capital, Kinshasa, and she is not allowed to bring Otto. But she refuses, because Otto needs her, and she runs away, because the peacekeepers are chasing her, saying she needs to go. She runs into the enclosure with Otto,  where the bonobos live. Sophie has to deal with living with the bonobos, and surviving the war.

This is a really good book, about war. The genre, I would say, is survival, mixed in with violence, and the connection between a human and a bonobo. I really enjoyed it, a realistic fiction book. It has a lot of violence and a sort of inappropriate part, but no bad language. Overall, the book is really well written, and I would recommend it for people who like violence, and animals. This is one of my favorite books, and I don't really like this type of genre.

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