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= __Monkey Town by Ronald Kidd __ =

==="Imagine living in a town with only monkeys. Your parents were monkeys, and everyone looked and acted as if they were a monkey!" thought 15-year-old Frances Robinson looking at the picture of a monkey that her crush of a teacher, Mr. Scopes, held up. The name "Monkey Town" only gives you a taste of what this book is about. ===

===As you can already tell, ditsy Frances Robinson has a major crush on her biology teacher Mr. Scopes, or Johnny, as she would call him. Only in her dreams does she ever see herself with him. After all he is a whole lot older than her! What do monkeys have to do with this book, you may be thinking. Well, in Frances's favorite class, biology, Mr. Scopes gets on the topic of evolution. Nowadays we don't talk about evolution (how humans came to be) in school because it was and still is a very controversial subject, possibly illegal to talk about. Should evolution be taught in a biology class in the small community of Dayton? Dayton went from a town nobody cared about to the place everyone talked about. Not only does Frances starts to see things differently, so does her biology teacher. The worst part is, the principal of Frances' school takes Mr. Scopes to trial to talk about this controversial matter. So basically the principal of Frances' school started this nonsense. What you didn't know is that the principal just happens to be Frances's dad! ===

=== ﻿Frances can't just watch the love of her life to go to jail right in front of her eyes because of her dad! She needs to stand up for him! Will Mr. Scopes win his trial? Read Monkey Town! ===

===I personally thought this book was very interesting! It leaves you with suspense and I also like that you can decide whose side you're really on and have your opinions on what's going on! I would definitely recommend this book. It also has a little historical value involved with it too, so that is also very interesting. The Scopes trial was one of the biggest and most famous trials (held in 1925). If you're interested in crimes and trials, this would also be a good book for you! I hope you enjoyed reading this! ===