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Set in the dark jungles of Congo, Endangered chronicles 14-year-old Sophie's accidental mission to save a group of bonobos when the country is overtaken by civil war. When she arrives in Congo for the summer, Sophie feels unenthusiastic about the mandatory visit to her mother's bonobo sanctuary.

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-The origins of the current Congo War are rooted in the country’s two civil wars, beginning in 1996 and 1998, respectively. The first civil war was sparked by the 1994 Rwandan genocide
- In 1999, the United Nations authorized a 19,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force, now called MONUSCO, to help create stability in eastern Congo. This was the U.N.’s largest peacekeeping mission in the organization’s history. Currently, there are 113,000 peacekeeping troops in the Congo with this mission.
- Since the outbreak of fighting in 1998, around 5.4 million people have died in the Congo.

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- Eliot has published 11 books
- He is currently on the faculty of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Farleigh Dickinson University
- He is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.

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-The Book Takes place in The Democratic Republic of Congo
-The book was published in September 2012
-The book has 73806 words