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Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 26
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Bob, a mutt of uncertain heritage, sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan the gorilla and Ruby the elephant. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family. -- adapted from back cover.
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob"--
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"On the day of his mother’s funeral, a young boy conjures the very visitor he needs to see: a gorilla. Wise and gentle, the gorilla stays on to answer the heart-heavy questions the boy hesitates to ask his father: Where did his mother go? Will she come back home? Will we all die? Yet with the gorilla’s friendship, the boy slowly begins to discover moments of comfort in tending flowers, playing catch, and climbing trees. Most of all, the gorilla...
10) Little Beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a gorilla who knows sign language tells his keepers that he is lonely, they bring him a very special friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The UK's #1 bestselling children's author, David Walliams, is back with a thrilling historical adventure with life-or-death stakes-chock-full of Walliams's unmistakable humor and perfect for fans of Stuart Gibbs and Gordon Korman.
1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY.
Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla.
But with German bombs raining...
14) Look!
Author
Description
Using only two words--"look" and "out"--relates a story about an attention-loving gorilla, a television-loving boy, and a friendship that develops over books.
15) Gorilla
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Neglected by her busy father, a lonely young girl receives a toy gorilla for her birthday and together they take a miraculous trip to the zoo.
16) One gorilla
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
A playful gorilla makes his way through jungles, gardens, and forests full of hidden creatures waiting to be counted.
18) Orphaned
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Snub is a young female gorilla, somewhat jealous because her mother is occupied with a new baby, curious of the world around her, a world that is being reshaped by shaking ground and mountains that bleed fire, and most terrifyingly by a new form of predator that walks on two legs; when her mother is killed Snub finds herself in charge of her baby brother--and accompanied by one of the not-gorillas, a very young female who has been orphaned by the...
19) Koko's kitten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The real life experiences of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a young kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died.
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