Tuesday Teasers: "The One and Only Ivan"; "Downfall"

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should  Be Reading. Anyone can play along, so I thought  I  would play for fun! Just do the following

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on  that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!   You don’t  want  to  ruin the  book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can  add the book to their TBR  Lists  if they  like your teaser.   

Gerard's:

"I don't want a zoo," Ruby says. "I want you and Bob and Julia. This is my home."
"No, Ruby," I say, "This is your prison."

From page 240 of The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

Karen's:

And she and her family would be terrorized. He'd make them homeless by making them fear their home, and that would just be the beginning.

From page 13 of Downfall by Terri Blackstock.

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