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Song for a Whale

Author : Lynne Kelly

Publisher : Delacorte Press

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 26,70 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!



Chained

Author : Lynne Kelly

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 19,29 MB

Release : 2012-05-08

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0374312370

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To work off a family debt, 10-year-old Hastin leaves his desert village in India to work as a circus elephant keeper but many challenges await him, including trying to keep Nandita, a sweet elephant, safe from the cruel circus owner.



Inside Deaf Culture

Author : Carol PADDEN

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 33,65 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.



The Heart of a Whale

Author : Anna Pignataro

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 31 pages

File Size : 28,87 MB

Release : 2024-11-12

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0593692608

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In this beautiful story of kindness and empathy, loneliness and love, one creature finds that the help he needs is just a song and a sigh away. Now available as a board book--a perfect new baby gift! Whale's beautiful song winds its way through the ocean, reaching the farthest of faraways. His song is one of happiness and hope, magic and wonder--and Whale's fellow sea creatures are calmed, cheered, and lulled by it. But though Whale sings his tender song day after day, night after night, he wonders why he has no song to fill his empty heart. So when he lets out a mournful sigh, the ocean carries it like a wish through its fathoms, bringing it to just the right place. Filled with stunning art and poetic text, this poignant story reminds us that being kind and helping a friend in need are sometimes the most beautiful things of all.



The Whales' Song

Author : Dyan Sheldon

Publisher : Random House

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 46,66 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Children's stories

ISBN : 0099263491

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Perfect mini picture books to collect and to treasure. Her grandmother's tales of the beautiful, enchanting whales' song that once filled the ocean leads Lily on a wondrous journey of imagination....



Songs of the Humpback Whale

Author : Jodi Picoult

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 22,14 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 : 50,29 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.



The Longest Whale Song

Author : Jacqueline Wilson

Publisher : Random House

Page : 46 pages

File Size : 39,29 MB

Release : 2013-09-26

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 144819363X

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Ella's mother is in a deep coma, having just had a new baby. That means Ella has to live with Jack, her hopeless stepfather, and cope with her tiny newborn brother, as well as worrying about Mum. The only thing that's going right is her school project. It's all about whales and how they sing out to each other to attract a mate - sometimes for hours. Maybe a whale song could reach Mum, wherever she is, and bring her back to Ella and baby Samson. Surely it's worth a try?



Whale Song

Author : Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Publisher : Kunati Books

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 24,60 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.



Fluke

Author : Christopher Moore

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 41,57 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. . .