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Garden Heights
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Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study
The One and Only Ivan
a novel by Katherine Applegate
Level 3 · Fluent ReadersUS Grades 4–5Lexile 570LAR (ATOS) 3.6 · Newbery Medal 2013
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🦍 Great Apes & Animal Minds
Silverbacks, gorilla families, animal art and grief — the real science inside Ivan’s spare voice.
SUPPORTING
🐘 Animal Welfare & the Real Ivan
The true Tacoma mall gorilla, the campaign that freed him, and how good zoos replaced cages.
SUPPORTING
🎨 Art, Ads & Imagination
Animals that paint, pictures in the mind’s eye, and how one billboard word moved a city.
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