The Warm Place /
by Nancy Farmer.
- New York : Puffin Books, 1996.
- 152 p. ; 19 cm.
When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chameleon, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to "the warm place" that is home.