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Young wizards volume 2
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A pact with a whale wizard named S'reee could mean danger for thirteen-year-old Nita when she and her partner, Kit, acquire magical powers after rescuing the creature.
2) Whaley Whale
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Simple text and illustrations show the reader a whale hiding in the ocean.
4) Ice whale
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In 1848, ten-year-old Toozak, a Yupik Eskimo, sees a whale being born and is told by a shaman that he and his descendants must protect that whale, which Toozak names Siku, as long as it lives.
5) Storm boy
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Thrown from his canoe during an ocean storm, a young Native American boy is washed ashore under a strange sky near a village inhabited by very large people who make him very welcome.
8) Winter whale
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Transformed into a humpback whale, a child experiences life in the ocean among other whales.
9) Stranded
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Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.
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"Swimming, singing and blowing bubbles--baby whale calves and young human children share so many of the same activities! This lyrical picture book compares the relationship of a young child and mother with that of a whale calf and its mother, showing how the lives of the whales can be so touchingly like our own. Patterned in a call-and-response format, where the mother observes and the child responds, the text begs to be read aloud. Safe at night...
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After losing her mom. Willa is grieving and having a hard time living with her dad and his new family on an island off the coast of Washington State. Her dad tries to cheer her up by taking her whale watching, something Willa's mom used to do. While all the passengers are on one side of the boat, Will encounters a humpback whale on the opposite side. Willa feels so lonely that she starts to talk to the whale--and the whale talks back! The whale, named...
13) Beachy and me
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"It's summertime, but Pixie Picklespeare is lonely on the tiny island she lives on with her family ... until one day when she makes friends with a whale!"--
19) When whales fly
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Whale wants to fly, and Snail offers to teach her, but Quail insists that whales can not fly.
20) The storm whale
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Noi and his father live in a house by the sea. Noi's father works hard as a fisherman, and Noi often has only their six cats for company. So when, one day, he finds a baby whale washed up on the beach after a storm, Noi is excited and takes it home to care for it. He tries to keep his new friend a secret, but but there's only so long you can keep a whale in the bath without your dad finding out. Noi is eventually persuaded that the whale has to go...