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

by Katherine Applegate

Every night, when the stores close and the moon washes the world with milky light, Stella and I talk. We don’t have much in common, but we have enough. We are huge and alone, and we both love yogurt raisins.

Gorillas are not complainers. We’re dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.

Because she remembers everything, Stella knows many stories. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.