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The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate
A gorilla lives in a mall. He paints. He makes a plan.
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Ivan is a gorilla who has lived in a shopping mall for twenty-seven years. He paints. He has a dog friend named Bob and an elephant friend named Stella. He does not think much about what he has lost — until a baby elephant arrives and he has to. Applegate based this on the true story of Ivan, a silverback gorilla who was kept in a Tacoma mall for years. The novel is told in Ivan's voice — patient, precise, occasionally funny, heartbreaking without sentimentality. A book about captivity and dignity and what it means to make something beautiful in the place where you're trapped.
