219 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1989 by Delacorte Press.

OCLC Number:
18628887

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After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.

13 editions

Still moving

I first read this decades ago as a pre-teen and it absolutely stuck with me. Turns out, mostly the very beginning and very end, but the story between those visceral feelings of non-human connection is solid challenging ethically complex YA too.

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Subjects

  • Chimpanzees -- Fiction
  • Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction
  • Animals -- Treatment -- Fiction