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Author:

Pinkwater, Daniel Manus, 1941-

Title:

Bushman lives! / by Daniel Pinkwater ; illustrations by Calef Brown.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

247 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Artists--Juvenile fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Humorous stories.
Bildungsromans.
Artists--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Adventure fiction.
Humorous fiction.

Other Authors:

Brown, Calef, ill.

Summary:

In the 1960s, Harold Knishke, a Chicago teenager with a special place in his heart for Bushman, the famed departed gorilla of the Lincoln Park Zoo, embarks on a hometown adventure, in a quest to become a great artist and figure out how he became the object of a famous folk song.

Indexed by:

Publisher's Weekly, August 2012
Kirkus Review, September 2012

ISBN:

0547385390
9780547385396 (trade)

LCCN:

2011048211

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)