The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only Ivan, #1)

by Katherine Applegate

Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.

I can tell from the sound of her voice that this will be a question I don’t want to answer. Ruby taps her trunk against the rusty iron bars of her door. “Do you think,” she asks, “that I’ll die in this domain someday, like Aunt Stella?”

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