Ishmael trilogy
Author
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bantam/Turner Book
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. "You are the teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human...
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
"People are listening, Jared--possibly to something quite new. That makes it dangerous." So begins Father Jared Osborne's mission to Europe to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. Father Osborne is bound by a covert centuries-old mandate held by his religious order: to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--and to try to suppress and destroy him..
3) My Ishmael
Author
Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A novel on Ishmael, a gorilla-philosopher. He advertises for a pupil interested in saving the world and Julie Gerchak, 12, answers. The lessons center on the educational system, which according to Ishmael is not really doing its job.
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