Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee
- ISBN-10
- 1101625325
- ISBN-13
- 9781101625323
- Series
- Best Friends
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-08-02
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Roberta Edwards
Description
After the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, a little hippo named Owen was discovered orphaned and alone, far from home. Come read the true and heartwarming story of the animal sanctuary that provided a new home for Owen, where he found an unlikely best friend in a 130- year-old tortoise named Mzee.
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