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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik
Original language
English

MONKEY AND ME

David Gilman

THE MONKEY IN ME is a delightful, poignant story, full of humour. Ten-year-old Jez Matthews – or Beanie as he is called because of the headgear he wears constantly – is always getting into scrapes, and his older brother Mark keeps getting a black eye from standing up to belligerent kids who pick on his younger brother. Their dad has given up his job as a truck driver to work as a postman, to be closer to home, and we know that things are not quite right with the family. But there's a world outside filled with excitement and intrigue as Beanie makes a bid to join his brother's gang, and they brave the scary deserted house The Black Gate, where some creature is making frightening noises only to come upon, of all things, a chimpanzee. How exactly he got there is a mystery to be solved as Beanie bonds with the ape he names Malcolm, discovering that he seems to know some basic sign language. Has he escaped from an animal experiment laboratory? Who are the men pursuing him? And can the boys rescue Malcolm from what could be a harsh fate, with the help, perhaps of a deaf girl .
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Comments

‘I haven't read anything like this book before. It was very sad at times and it brought more than one tear to my eye but parts were also funny and made me laugh out loud. I liked this sad, humorous, emotional book and I rate it 9¾ out of 10.' - Kat Winter, child reviewer on the Children's Books site

‘David Gilman's debut THE DEVIL'S BREATH, is a gung-ho eco-adventure, in the footsteps of Anthony Horowitz's superlative Alex Rider series Gilman has used all the tips that Laurens van der Post, H. Rider Haggard and Wilbur Smith could come up with. THE DEVIL'S BREATH is a lot of fun, from learning how to use lions against your enemy to sucking up water from the desert through a reed The eco angle will go down well, and what Gilman does superlatively is heart-pounding action. Ideal for exam-stressed children'- Amanda Craig

"I liked this sad, humorous, emotional book and I rate it 9¾ out of 10."