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Part I (Chapters 1 - 5)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Schrefer, Eliot. Endangered. Scholastic Press, New York, 2012.

• This novel is written in the first-person, primarily in the past-tense, from the point of view of Sophie Biyoya-Ciardulli, a 14-year-old girl whose father lives in the U.S. and whose mother lives in the DRC.

• Part I is titled Otto. In Chapter 1, Sophie was in Kinshasa, the DRC capital.

• Sophie was in a car with Clement, an employee of her mother's. Sophie's mother runs a sanctuary for bonobos outside of the city.

• In the city, in the car that Clement was driving, Sophie saw a man walking along showing off a baby bonobo. The bonobo grinned periodically but looked in ill health.

• Against Clement's strenuous objections, Sophie got out of the car and approached the man with the bonobo.

• The man had a...

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