Most kids would envy 11-year-old Whit — he lives at a zoo, his mom is the zoo director, and his dad is the head elephant keeper. But Whit feels as trapped as the 750 animals in the collection, only even less interesting to his parents because he’s human. He has a special on-site teacher three days a week and is never allowed out of the zoo. How is a kid supposed to have friends when he never meets anyone?The story opens with Whit breaking the rules and going to the picnic pavilion without telling anyone, though he is surprised …

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