Baboon
Animal stories, Canadian fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Flying back to the African savanna with his parents, 14-year-old Gerry would rather be back home - sure, his parents' baboon research lets him explore the African wilderness, but thinking of spending weeks there with a bunch of monkeys makes… him miss everything about the city. Suddenly, the plane flies into a lightning storm, the engine dies, and they come down hard. Gerry wakes up on the ground, thinking that a baboon has broken his fall, but something quite different has happened - something that will change Gerry's life forever. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8. 2007.