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Gr 4–8—An engagingly accessible but quirky mystery featuring a gorilla named Sally Jones who not only narrates the story but can also read and write. She just doesn't talk. Sally Jones is an engineer working for Chief Koskela on his ship, the Hudson Queen, in this suspenseful and well-plotted adventure. In Lisbon, Portugal, while carrying what they think is a crate of tiles, Sally Jones and the Chief are attacked by robbers, and the ship is sunk. Things go from bad to worse when the Chief is shortly thereafter arrested for the murder of the man who hired them to transport the cargo. Sally Jones is on her own, decried by passersb...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In Lisbon, Sally Jones (a gorilla living in the human world) and the Chief accept cargo from one Alphonse Morro for their ship the Hudson Queen. But the tiles he asked them to transport turn out to be guns; his men take over the Hudson Queen; she founders on rocks and sinks; and Sally Jones and the Chief return shipless to Lisbon. There the Chief gets into a fight with Morro and ends up being charged...Log In or Sign Up to Read More