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Maureen Fergus

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kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Ortega written by Maureen Fergus For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=3177

Hardcover Jacket USD $16.95 978-1-55453-474-6 Grades: 4 to 6 Ages: 9 to 12 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell T Grade Level 4/5 © 2010 BW 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 224 pages	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. Reviews “The story’s excitement and suspense as well as the emotional drama will ensnare readers. This interesting, affecting novel will definitely find an audience.” — School Library Journal, July 2010

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Ortega written by Maureen Fergus For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=3177

Hardcover Jacket USD $16.95 978-1-55453-474-6 Grades: 4 to 6 Ages: 9 to 12 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell T Grade Level 4/5 © 2010 BW 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 224 pages	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. Reviews “The story’s excitement and suspense as well as the emotional drama will ensnare readers. This interesting, affecting novel will definitely find an audience.” — School Library Journal, July 2010

kidscanpress.com presents ...
	Ortega written by Maureen Fergus For information - including sample spreads, free downloadables and more - go to www.kidscanpress.com/US/product.aspx?productid=3177

Hardcover Jacket USD $16.95 978-1-55453-474-6 Grades: 4 to 6 Ages: 9 to 12 Language Arts Genre, Literature, Understanding humor Reading Levels: Fountas & Pinnell T Grade Level 4/5 © 2010 BW 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 224 pages	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. Reviews “The story’s excitement and suspense as well as the emotional drama will ensnare readers. This interesting, affecting novel will definitely find an audience.” — School Library Journal, July 2010

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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 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.

Curriculum Connections

Language Arts

Genre, Literature, Understanding

humor

Reading levels

Fountas & Pinnell

Grade Level

4/5

Hardcover Jacket

978-1-55453-474-6

Reviews

“The story’s excitement and suspense as well as the emotional drama will ensnare readers. This interesting, affecting novel will definitely find an audience.”: — School Library Journal, July 2010