Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee - Paperback

by Roberta Edwards (Author), Carol Schwartz (Illustrator)

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.

Reader Level 2: Level 2 is for Progressing Readers who can read longer sentences with simple dialogue. These books offer pictures and context clues, in-depth plot development, and are available in both fiction and nonfiction books.

Author Biography

Roberta Edwards lives in New York, New York. Ken Call lives in Northbrook, Illinois.