Threatened (Ape Quartet #2)

Posted on 19 August 2018 by Eliot Schrefer

Into the jungle Into the wild Into harm s way.When he was a boy, Luc s mother would warn him about the mock men living in the trees by their home chimpanzees whose cries would fill the night.Luc is older now, his mother gone He lives in a house of mistreated orphans, barely getting by Then a man calling himself Prof comes to town with a mysterious mission When Luc tries to rob him, the man isn t angry Instead, he offers Luc a job.Together, Luc and Prof head into the rough, dangerous jungle in order to study the elusive chimpanzees There, Luc finally finds a new family and must act when that family comes under attack. Read Threatened (Ape Quartet #2) by Eliot Schrefer – kino-fada.fr As with ENDANGERED, I think this is a teen book that will resonate best with teens I liked this one even better Teachers librarians plenty of stuff to talk about with your readers with these books.With a title like THREATENED you would expect a book that is suspenseful, and then you see a cute little chimp hanging from a tree and your next thought is awwww, poor chimp This must be an ecological novel It is, in part, but it is also so muchthan that It is a novel about running from and confronting your fears, it is about making a family and a home, and it is about saving Chimpanzees.Luc has always been afraid of the chimpanzees that lived in the jungle near his home Their yell With a title like THREATENED you would expect a book that is suspenseful, and then you see a cute little chimp hanging from a tree and your next thought is awwww, poor chimp This must be an ecological novel It is, in part, but it is also so muchthan that It is a novel about running from and confronting your fears, it is about making a family and a home, and it is about saving Chimpanzees.Luc ha...Threatened by Eliot Schrefer Read March 15th 2014I had no idea that this would be a book aimed at young people To me it was a book aimed directly at myself all of 70 years old As a retired teacher, I felt that this book would make a wonderful discussion for High School or Middle School Students There is so much going on Basically it is a survivalism story.It begins in a poor town in Gabon the protagonist is Luc, an AIDS orphan making a living on the streets and being exploited by a rea Threatened...Schrefer is an incredibly talented writer his settings feel authentic in that he makes far away places seem very close to home I develop a strong kinship with his characters animal or human.I expected Threatened to be very similar to Endangered, but I was wrong Endangered is about an American girl visiting her mother in a Congolese bonobo sanctuary when a civil war breaks out Threatened, on the other hand, is about an orphan boy from Gabon who goes into the wild with a professor in order t Schrefer is an incredibly talented writer his settings feel authentic in that he makes far away places seem very close to home I develop a strong kinship with his characters animal or human.I expected Threatened to be very similar to Endangered, but I was wrong Endangered is about an ...I really felt plunged into a different world, not only of chimpanzees in the jungle, but of being an AIDs orphan in the West African country of Gabon Some initial details were horrifying child thieves being threatened with having their hands cut off I was glad that most of the story deals not with human brutalities but with the matter of fact realities of nonhuman nature how l...Fantastic story of survival, will, and empathy I loved Endangered, but I think I liked this one evenI found my next 6th grade read aloud.Threatened is by far one of the favorite books ever As it turns enemies to friends, Eliot Schrefer makes you want to sit on the edge of your chair and readWhen he adds great detail and paints a picture in your head, it encourages you to stay tuned to what happens next.In the book Threatened by Eliot Schrefer, a boy named Luc is forced to live in a house of mistreated orphans after his mother and sister die, and his father leaves them When Luc brings home an occasional coin, it goes to h Threatened is by far one of the favorite books ever As it turns enemies to friends, Eliot Schrefer makes you want to sit on the edge of your chair and readWhen he adds great detail and paints a picture in your head, it encourages you to stay tuned to what happens next.In the book Threatened by Eliot Schrefer, a boy named Luc is forced to live in a house of mistreated orphans after his mother and sister die, and his father leaves them When Luc brings home an occasional coin, it goes to h...I shut the book, smoothed my hands over the cover, and toyed with the spirals at the edge I wanted to live inside that book Which is how I knew I was stayingWhen beginning and ending this book, this is how I felt and reacted At first, I decided to read this book because Eliot s debut, Endangered, was pretty good It was well written and captivating for my liking He always deals with a concept that is unique and fresh I dove right into it, considerably enjoying it through the middle ButI shut the book, smoothed my hands over the cover, and toyed with the spirals at the edge I wanted to live inside that book Which is how I knew I was stayingWhen beginning and ending this book, this is how I felt and reacted At first, I decided to read this book because Eliot s debut, Endangered, was pretty good It was well written and captivating for my liking He always deals with a concept that is unique and fresh I dove right into it, considerably enjoying it through the middle But by the end, I was steering myself away from it, especially because of the boring predictable plot But then, the ending was fairly good, so that boosted up my happiness, just a little This is about Luc, who has always been warned about the Inside The mock men have always been classified as extremely dangerous Now, Luc is all alone, and his mother s gone Then, a mysterious man named Prof comes into town where Luc works, and offers Lu...I was finally making a choice of my own, and it made me feel a contentment that lived right next to terror Luc is an AIDS orphan in Gabon who has known way too much loss and exploitation in his young life When an Egyptian researcher offers him a job as his assistant, and the chance to escape the man who has enslaved him since his mother s death, Luc jumps at the chance even though he has only heard horror stories about the...As in Endangered, Schrefer has created another fascinating, primate centric novel in a world that would envelope me into its humid, exotic and wild terrain within seconds of opening its pages I still do not like chimps quite as much as bonobos, but the ones Luc befriends here are quite charming And this location is evenremote you really are one with the chimpanzees, as for great sections of the book there are only one or two humans present, with no trace of civilization Inside view spo As in Endangered, Schrefer has created another fascinating, primate centric novel in a world that would envelope me into its humid, exotic and wild terrain within seconds of opening its pages I still do not like chimps quite as muc...

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19 August 2018

Eliot Schrefer