Book Club Discussion Kit. The one and only Ivan
(Kit)

A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.

Book in bag is published by New York : Harper, 2012.

Title and statement of responsibility from book title page.

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home - and his own art - through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it's up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.

570L,Lexile

Decoding demand: 86 (very high),Semantic demand: 100 (very high),Syntactic demand: 76 (high),Structure demand: 87 (very high),Lexile

Accelerated Reader AR,MG,3.6,4,150437.

Newbery Medal.