Summary
After visiting a great ape sanctuary, Marty and her friends set out to raise the money to "adopt" a chimpanzee by organizing a talent show at school and starting a pet-sitting business in Marty's basement--which soon gets out of hand. Full description
Summary: |
After visiting a great ape sanctuary, Marty and her friends set out to raise the money to "adopt" a chimpanzee by organizing a talent show at school and starting a pet-sitting business in Marty's basement--which soon gets out of hand. |
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Physical Description: |
168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
ISBN: |
9780545535595 (hc) 054553559X (hc) 9780545535601 (pb) 0545535603 (pb) |
Author Notes: |
KATE MESSNER is the author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers; Capture the Flag, an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner; Hide and Seek, and Manhunt. Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family. Visit her online at www.katemessner.com . BRIAN FLOCA is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott Medal-winning book Locomotive. He also wrote and illustrated Lightship and Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, both Sibert Honor Books, and Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, also a Sibert Honor Book. Brian now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find him at www.brianfloca.com . |