Sac News & Review: Memoir of Sacramento teen’s fight for animal rights gets endorsed by the world’s best-known conservationist
Justin Barker’s story of battling local officials over numbing zoo conditions gets a thumbs-up from Jane Goodall
By the time Justin Barker was 15, he was already a thorn in the side of the Capital region’s most entrenched politicians. As a kid who was struggling with being bullied, growing through an awkward phase and having an undefinable sense that he somehow didn’t belong, Barker took to spending one long summer of escape at the Sacramento Zoo.
