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Series
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Bindi wildlife adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Bindi, escorting a pair of troublesome twins on a whale-watching outing, rushes to the scene of a boating accident and comes across an oil spill that could endanger marine life for hundreds of miles.
43) Stranded
Author
Pub. Date
1996,c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
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.
44) Maui-Maui
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A whale teaches the Amomonies to respect the balance of nature and take only what they need from the sea.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 45
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While on vacation at the Bay of Whales with Petunia Pretty Paws, Geronimo Stilton comes across a great white whale that needs his help.
Author
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
Hannah the elephant is thriving in her new home, peacemaker Truman Levy is the new director of the Max L. Biedelman Zoo, and life in Bladenham, Washington, has finally settled down--or has it? From his eccentric aunt Ivy, Truman learns of the plight of a desperately sick captive killer whale named Friday. Reluctantly, Truman agrees to give the orca a new home at the zoo. But not everybody believes in his captivity. Soon the zoo is embroiled in a controversy,...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 45
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"I invited my friend Petunia Pretty Paws to visit the Bay of Whales with me. But our trip got off on the wrong paw, and my relaxing vacation turned into a real nightmare. That is, until Petunia and I came across a great white whale that needed our help" (publisher).
55) Ice whale
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
From the most celebrated children's nature writer of our time comes a posthumous new novel in the tradition of her Newbery award-winning "Julie of the Wolves" In 1848 in Barrow, Alaska, a young Eskimo boy witnesses a rare sight--the birth of a bowhead, or ice whale, that he calls Siku. But when he unwittingly guides Yankee whalers to a pod of bowhead whales, all the whales are killed. For this act, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the...
56) The lost whale
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: When Rio is sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, he feels completely alone. Then he makes a new friend on the foggy beach-a girl named Marina, who teaches him about the massive grey whales that migrate nearby. As Rio grows to love the whales, he discovers that his mother loved them, too. He's suddenly sure that if he can somehow find a way to connect her with these gentle giants, and especially with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Dive into a brand new Narwhal and Jelly story for the youngest readers! When Narwhal accidentally bursts Jelly's bubble with his tusk-tooth, Jelly is a little sad . . . until Narwhal shows him that there are lots of bubbles in the ocean! There are little-bitty bubbles and great big bubbles. There are bubbles up high and bubbles down low. There are bubbles that are pink and bubbles that stink. It's unbelieva-bubble! This charming board book celebrates...
60) Amos y Boris
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.