For 13 years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan --- an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben's father is a renowned behavioral scientist, and his latest project is to determine whether chimps can acquire advanced language skills. Ben slowly starts to treat Zan as a brother, but his father only sees him as an experiment. Soon Ben is forced to make the critical choice between what he is told to believe and what he knows to be true.
Amelia and Riley, bad kids from bad Brookfield High, have transferred to Ashbury High for senior year. They've been love since they were fourteen, they go out dancing every night and sleep through school all day. But strange things are happening at Ashbury this year and the new kids are hiding a secret that could ruin more than just senior year.
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