Dickinson, Peter. Eva. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1988.
ISBN: 0440207665
$ 6.99 pbk.
ISBN: 0440207665
$ 6.99 pbk.
Reader’s Annotation:
A young girl is horribly injured in a car crash, as a result her brain is put into a chimpanzee’s body. The story follows the ethical, moral, and personal complications that follow this decision.
A young girl is horribly injured in a car crash, as a result her brain is put into a chimpanzee’s body. The story follows the ethical, moral, and personal complications that follow this decision.
Booktalk:
Have you ever felt like an animal? Wondered what it would like to be one? Eva, a teenage girl, doesn’t have to wonder what it’s like to be a chimpanzee, she is one.
-Futuristic setting
-Link between humans and primates
-Animal rights
-Overpopulation
-Political undertones of the story
-Cautionary tale
Awards/Reviews:
Booklist Starred Review
School Library Journal reviewed April 1, 1989
Publishers Weekly reviewed February 10, 1989
Have you ever felt like an animal? Wondered what it would like to be one? Eva, a teenage girl, doesn’t have to wonder what it’s like to be a chimpanzee, she is one.
-Futuristic setting
-Link between humans and primates
-Animal rights
-Overpopulation
-Political undertones of the story
-Cautionary tale
Awards/Reviews:
Booklist Starred Review
School Library Journal reviewed April 1, 1989
Publishers Weekly reviewed February 10, 1989
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