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Wild life, dispatches from a childhood of baboons and button-downs, Keena Roberts

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Wild life, dispatches from a childhood of baboons and button-downs, Keena Roberts

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wild life

Responsibility statement

Keena Roberts

Sub title

dispatches from a childhood of baboons and button-downs

Summary

Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy. In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in

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