Invitation to the game
Monica Hughes
Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their "Designated Area" until the government invites them to play The Game.
Read Time: ~0.5 hr
What am I?
by [written and illustrated] by Mary Neel Green (1999)
About this book
After being caught in a trap by pygmies in an African forest, a young animal that they call a donkey learns that he is really an okapi.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreWhat am I? Lead Character
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