"Humans are the sneakiest creatures alive. They look like hairless monkeys an smell like dead hyenas.But humans know a thousand tricks, and they love to play them on us."

This is how Ruva's mother, a giraffe, describes humans. Soon, however, Ruva is captured by humans and taken from Africa across the ocean to the United States to Dante's Zoo. There she meets Nelson, a chameleon. Ruva and Nelson work out a plan to escape. Will it succeed? Find out by reading, The Warm Place , by Nancy Farmer.