The Warm Place

REQUIRED AUTHOR-NANCY FARMER This novel tells the story of a baby giraffe (Ruva) who is captured in Africa and sent to a cruel American zoo. On the boat ride to America, Ruva meets Rodentus von Stroheim the Third, a stowaway rat who takes it upon himself to educate the young giraffe. The two are sudd......more

This young adult novel is about a baby giraffe, who, unintentionally, goes on a great adventure. Ruva is a female baby giraffe happily living with her family in Africa. One day, she ignores the warning by her mother to stay away from things with which she is not familiar. Next thing she knows, Ruva i......more

I was only starting out here when I first read this book, so I did not write a review. However, I decided that this might be a fun book to read aloud to my boys, so I took it down from the shelf and read. The book has its flaws, but they can be overlooked as the intended reader is probably in element......more

Nancy Farmer, author of the fictional novel "The Warm Place," wrote a beautiful tale of family and the yearning for home felt in all children through the tale of one little giraffe named Ruav. Stolen at a young age by the evil Slopes, Ruav is put in a zoo where she makes friends with a chameleon, Ne......more

NANCY FARMER and FANTASY The warm place is a mythical story about a giraffe named Ruva, who at a young age gets kidnapped by humans and torn from her home and mother in Africa. She goes on an adventure, in a voyage to a zoo, that she learns to escape. She then takes a return voyage home to Africa dea......more