Roberta Edwards, Carol Schwartz
Best Friends: The True Story of Owen and Mzee
eBook
(Penguin Young Readers May 10, 2007)
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.