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Ortega

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By Maureen Fergus
Publisher Kids Can Press, Limited
Ortega
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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 didnt know how to cry. Raised in a laboratory, Ortega might seem nearly human to his scientistcaregivers, 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 peoples minds. More than a comicadventure 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.

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64392 words64,392 words
224 pages224 pages
Lexile 1040LLexile 1040L
Grade 3 to 6Grade 3 to 6
Age 8-11Age 8-11
Published 2010Published 2010

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Book ISBN:

9781554534746

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