Threatened: Volume 2

By Eliot Schrefer

Book Overview

*A 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST*

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 mad. 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.As he did in his acclaimed novel Endangered, a finalist for the National Book Award, Eliot Schrefer takes us somewhere fiction rarely goes, introducing us to characters we rarely get to meet. The unforgettable result is the story of a boy fleeing his present, a man fleeing his past, and a trio of chimpanzees who are struggling not to flee at all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 054583564X
• ISBN13: 9780545835640
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12