Half Brother

Half Brother

• Half Brother
• Oppel, Kenneth Oppel
• Half Brother [Paperback] [Jul 01, 2012] Oppel, Kenneth …

<DIV><B>From a Printz-Honor-winning author, an absorbing novel about a teen boy whose scientist parents take in a chimpanzee.</B><br></br>All happy families are alike. Ben Tomlin's unhappy family is unhappy in a very different way.<br></br>For thirteen years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan--an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben's father, a renowned behavioral scientist, has uprooted the family to pursue his latest research project: a high-profile experiment to determine whether chimps can acquire advanced language skills. Ben's parents tell him to treat Zan like a little brother. Ben reluctantly agrees. At least now he's not the only one his father's going to scrutinize.<br></br> It isn't long before Ben is Zan's favorite, and Ben starts to see Zan as more than just an experiment. His father disagrees. Soon Ben is forced to make a critical choice between what he is told to believe and what he knows to be true--between obeying his father or protecting his brother from an unimaginable fate.</DIV>