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Song for a Whale

Author : Lynne Kelly

Publisher : Delacorte Press

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 31,68 MB

Release : 2019-02-05

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1524770256

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The award-winning and USA Today bestselling story of a deaf girl's connection to a whale whose song can't be heard by his species, and the journey she takes to help him. "Fascinating, brave, and tender...a triumph." --Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you, then you know how hard that can be. When she learns about Blue 55, a real whale who is unable to speak to other whales, Iris understands how he must feel. Then she has an idea: she should invent a way to "sing" to him! But he's three thousand miles away. How will she play her song for him? Full of heart and poignancy, this affecting story by sign language interpreter Lynne Kelly shows how a little determination can make big waves. And make sure to read Lynne Kelly's next book and instant classic, The Secret Language of Birds!



Killer Whale Eyes

Author : Sondra Simone Segundo

Publisher :

Page : 42 pages

File Size : 11,10 MB

Release : 2014-02

Category : Haida Indians

ISBN : 9780985312954

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In this story adapted from Haida tales, a girl who is born with eyes like no other has a special affinity for the water and the creatures who live there. When she is lost to the sea one day, her people are heartbroken until they encounter the wonder that has occurred.



Isabel of the Whales

Author : Hester Velmans

Publisher : Yearling

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 21,44 MB

Release : 2008-12-18

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 030753300X

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Eleven-year-old Isabel is a “plain old” girl living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, who believes that she is destined to accomplish something special. When her fifth-grade class goes on a whale-watch field trip, something amazing happens: Dozens of different species of whales surround the boat, bumping the deck and sending Isabel flying into the ocean. Isabel is shocked to hear the whales speaking to her—she is a mermaid, they tell her, a “Chosen One” who has the ability to turn from a human into a whale and back again. She is destined to live among the whales long enough to learn their ways, and teach them about the human world. Living among her pod is fun, at first, but Isabel has an important mission. She will change the whales’ future forever, and learn a lot about herself in the process.



Inside Deaf Culture

Author : Carol PADDEN

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 24,92 MB

Release : 2009-06-30

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0674041755

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"Inside Deaf Culture relates deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self-description as a flourishing culture. Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of deaf people for generations to come. They describe how deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth century deaf clubs and deaf theatre, and profile controversial contemporary technologies." Cf. Publisher's description.



Songs of the Humpback Whale

Author : Jodi Picoult

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 30,51 MB

Release : 2002-03-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0743439848

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Jodi Picoult’s powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment. Sometimes finding your own voice is a matter of listening to the heart... For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with their teenage daughter, Rebecca, for a cross-country odyssey charted by letters from her brother Joley, guiding them to his Massachusetts apple farm, where surprising self-discoveries await. Now Oliver, an expert at tracking humpback whales across vast oceans, will search for his wife across a continent—and find a new way to see the world, his family, and himself: through her eyes.



The Tale of the Whale

Author : Karen Swann

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 25,82 MB

Release : 2022-03-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1534493956

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A child and a whale embark on a beautiful journey together in this lyrical, gorgeously illustrated picture book about friendship, hope, and love for the world around us in the vein of The Fisherman & the Whale and Cynthia Rylant’s Life. Where land becomes sky and sky becomes sea, I first saw the whale and the whale first saw me. A child joins a friendly whale for a magical journey of discovery. They sail the blue ocean, dance with dolphins, and tail-splash seagulls. But the child also sees an ocean filled with plastic trash. And that inspires a promise of help, for the whale and all earth’s creatures.



Whale Song

Author : Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Publisher : Kunati Books

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 13,43 MB

Release : 2007-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1601640072

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What if you can't remember the most horrible day of your life? A shocking tragedy leaves Sarah with partial amnesia. Torn by nightmares, she must face her fears...and remember.



The Whale Rider

Author : Witi Ihimaera

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 13,99 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780152050160

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Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny when hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the future of the Maori tribe. Basis for the 2003 feature film.



Whale in a Fishbowl

Author : Troy Howell

Publisher : Schwartz & Wade

Page : 43 pages

File Size : 30,55 MB

Release : 2018-05-22

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1524715182

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A moving, poetic story about a whale in captivity who longs for the ocean . . . because whales don't belong in fishbowls, do they? Wednesday is a whale who lives in a fishbowl smack dab in the middle of a city--it's the only home she's ever known. Cars whizz around her and people hurry past; even the sun and moon circle above. But if she leaps high enough out of her bowl, Wednesday can see it: a calm bit of blue off in the distance. When a girl in a paisley dress tells Wednesday "You belong in the sea," the whale starts to wonder, what is the sea? Readers will cheer--and get all choked up-- when, one day, Wednesday leaps higher than ever before and sets in motion a breathtaking chain of events that will carry her to her rightful home. Touching, and ultimately uplifting, here is a story about a lonely creature longing to be free--and longing to find someone just like her. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018! A New York Public Library Best Book of 2018!



Fluke

Author : Christopher Moore

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 29,17 MB

Release : 2009-10-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0061807680

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“Readers new to the work of Christopher Moore will want to know two things immediately. First: Where has this guy been hiding? (Answer: In plain sight, since he has a cult following.)...[H]e writes laid back fables straight out of Margaritaville, on the cusp of humor and science fiction.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon. Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .