Book Descriptions
for Eva by Peter Dickinson
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
In one of the most original and intriguing plots in years, 13-year-old Eva wakes up in a hospital after a terrible car accident to find that her brain has been transplanted into the body of a chimpanzee. Set in a future time in which the human population has completely overrun the earth and other animals exist only in laboratories and zoos, Eva's story becomes one of a clash between scientists and environmentalists, as she becomes the key player in a plot to return a group of chimpanzees to the wild. The outstanding characterization of Eva, with the heart and mind of an adolescent girl and the body and instincts of an adult chimpanzee, is the highlight of this unforgettable novel. (Age 12 and older)
CCBC Choices 1989. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1989. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .
But there is something, Eva senses, that she’s not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?
But there is something, Eva senses, that she’s not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
