A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.

 

This book is part of a book series called Green Knowe .

This book has been graded for interest at 7-10 years.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Houghton Mifflin .

LUCY MARIA BOSTON (1892-1990) purchased a ramshackle manor house near Cambridge, England, in 1935, which over a period of two years she lovingly restored. It is this house that inspired her, at the age of sixty-two, to take pen in hand and create the beloved Green Knowe series.