基本信息; 商家编号;4174 作者;National Geographic Learning National Geographic Learning (作者) 出版社: National Geographic School Pub; 1 (2010年6月23日) 平装: 176页 读者对象: 10 - 14 岁 语种: 英语 ISBN: 1554510538 条形码: 9781554510535 商品尺寸: 12.7 x 1 x 18.4 cm 商品重量: 268 g
Fourteen-year-old Gerry Copeland has mixed feelings about flying back to his parents’ research camp in the African savanna. While his biologist mom and dad study baboon behavior, he’ll be thinking about the video arcade and restaurants back in the city. Suddenly, their small plane’s engine stutters and dies. They go down hard. Gerry wakes up thinking a baboon has broken his fall. He’s shocked to realize the furry arm is his own. Somehow, he’s become one of the beasts his parents are studying. Gerry’s only chance is to stay with the baboon troop. His parents don’t recognize him and he begins to lose hope he’ll ever be human again. His final, desperate bid to turn back means giving up the animal family he’s come to care about for the human family where he truly belongs. Baboon is the riveting story of one teenager’s journey into the heart of the baboon world, where he confronts terrifying attacks by predators and humans, threatening behavior within the troop, and the day-to-day struggle to survive.
媒体推荐 Wild adventure gets a new twist ... the realistic facts of animal behavior will stay with readers. (Hazel Rochman Booklist 20070501)
Readers craving adventure and nature-based drama will find this an engrossing [read]. (Ellen Fader, Multinomah County Library, Portland OR School Library Journal )
作者简介 David Jones is a full-time freelance writer with a degree in zoology. He has written widely on natural history themes and has published one previous book for young readers. He lives in Vancouver, B.C.
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