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Ortega / Maureen Fergus. --
Record details
- ISBN: 1554534747
- ISBN: 9781554534746
- Physical Description: 224 p.
- Publisher: Toronto : Kids Can Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Silver Birch Award nominee, 2011. "KCP Fiction". |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 18.95 |
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- Baker & Taylor
Raised by scientists since a young age, Ortega the gorilla has learned how to speak and has the intelligence of a typical human child, but when he wants to attend school, he is scared he will be labeled as a freak. - Baker & Taylor
Raised in a laboratory, Ortega might seem nearly human to his scientist-caregivers, but to the children at his new school, a talking gorilla is nothing but a freak, and unless he wants to spend the rest of his life locked in a cage, Ortega is going to have to change people's mindsâ¦. - Grand Central Pub
With a thick finger he slowly traced the path of a stray raindrop that had landed near the corner of his eye and trickled down his cheek. And he thought to himself that it was probably a very good thing that gorillas didn't know how to cry.
Raised in a laboratory, Ortega might seem nearly human to his scientist-caregivers, but to the children at his new school, a talking gorilla is nothing but a freak. Unless he wants to spend the rest of his life locked in a cage, however, Ortega is going to have to change people's minds.
More than a comic-adventure novel, Ortega asks the reader to reflect upon the limits of science, imagine how it feels to be profoundly different from those around you and, most of all, consider what it really means to be human. - Univ of Toronto Pr
Raised in a laboratory, Ortega might seem nearly human to his scientist-caregivers, but to the children at his new school, a talking gorilla is nothing but a freak. - Univ of Toronto Pr
With a thick finger he slowly traced the path of a stray raindrop that had landed near the corner of his eye and trickled down his cheek. And he thought to himself that it was probably a very good thing that gorillas didn't know how to cry. Raised in a laboratory, Ortega might seem nearly human to his scientist-caregivers, but to the children at his new school, a talking gorilla is nothing but a freak. Unless he wants to spend the rest of his life locked in a cage, however, Ortega is going to have to change people's minds. More than a comic-adventure novel, Ortega asks the reader to reflect upon the limits of science, imagine how it feels to be profoundly different from those around you and, most of all, consider what it really means to be human.
