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DO YOU KNOW THE MONKEY MAN?
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Written by
Dori Hillestad Butler
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Hardcover: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-340-5
Total Pages: 224
Size: 6 x 8-1/2
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Young Adult, ages 12-16/Fiction
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Dori Hillestad Butler is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction for young readers,. She has also published stories for children in magazines such as Highlights for Children, Cricket, Spider, Children's Digest, and Child Life. Butler is the children's book review columnist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. She lives in IowaYou can visit Dori Hillestad Butler's website at: www.kidswriter.com
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Accelerated Reader & Reading Counts Tests:
Reading Counts Test #: Q38426
Reading Counts Level: 3.5
AR Quiz#: 102988
AR Reading Level: 3.8
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FOR THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAMANTHA, life consists of too many unanswered questions. Why has her father not tried to contact her all these years? How could he have allowed her twin sister to drown in Clearwater Quarry when they were only toddlers? And how can Samantha's mother expect her to accept some man she hardly knows as her new father? Samantha already has a father out there. Somewhere.
A fateful decision sets into motion a chain of events and confrontations that will change Samantha's and her family's lives forever. As she sets out to find her father and discover what really happened the day her sister was presumed drowned, she uncovers painful secrets that threaten to destroy her family all over again.
Readers will be drawn into Dori Butler's dramatic, suspenseful, and sensitive story of one family's crisis unwittingly brought on by an adolescent girl's search for the truth.
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Reviews
"...middle-graders looking for a simple mystery will be pleased, and the story may inspire them to think about the concepts of identity and family that are threaded through the story."Booklist
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Awards
* 2005 Top Pick, Kansas State Reading Circle
* 2005 Bank Street College of Education Teen Book List
* 2005-2006 Pennsylvania Young Adult Top Forty List
* 2006-2007 Emphasis on Reading (AL)
* Master List, 2007 Kentucky Bluegrass Awards
* Preliminary List, 2007-2008 Mark Twain Award (MO)
* Nominee, 2007-2008 Mark Twain Award (MO)
* Nominee, 2007-2008 Black-Eyed Susan Award
* Nominee, 2007-2008 Soaring Eagle Book Award (WY)
* Nominee, 2008 Charlotte Award (young adult list) (NY)
* Nominee, 2008 Iowa Children's Choice Award
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