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Author
Language
English
Description
"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand--to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of...
2) Whale fall
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Blue Dot Kids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
"In a quiet harbor, a young child hears the call of a right whale, the rarest kind of whale. He is the only person in his town to hear the whale's moving song, and he waits by the bay to hear more of her story and shares in her joy and sorrow. At first her story makes the young boy sad, but he is soon filled with hope as she introduces her new calf to the world."--Amazon.com.
5) Moby Dick
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
"Call me Ishmael..." and so begins the epic tale of one man's obsession with Moby Dick, the white whale. A strange and compelling book, this is one of American literature's finest and is required reading in many AP and college English courses.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on...
8) Amos & Boris
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1971]
Lexile measure
AD 920L
Language
English
Description
Amos the mouse and Boris the whale have little in common except that they are both mammals and save each other's lives.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mr. Fish and Willa Whale are on their way to a birthday party, but Willa is worried about fitting in so Mr. Fish shows her how to overcome her social anxiety by tackling the worries one at a time.
10) The blue whale
Author
Publisher
[Publisher name unknown]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Out in the deep dark ocean far from where any boat has sailed lives a huge blue whale. He leads his simple, challenging, beautiful and mysterious life of endless blue days and nights. Just wonder, what is it like to be a blue whale?"--Back cover.
11) Puffin Peter
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his best friend is lost in a terrible storm, an intrepid young puffin teams up with a big blue whale to mount a rescue mission and discovers that while many other birds match his friend's description, none are quite the same.
12) Whaley Whale
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The reader is invited to find Whaley Whale's hiding place.
Author
Publisher
Anderson Press USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Elmer the patchwork elephant and his cousin Wilbur decide to go whale-watching, as their grandfather Eldo did at their age, their journey becomes far more of an adventure than they anticipated.
14) The storm whale
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Every day, in a house by the sea, a little boy watches his father leave for a long day's work. One night, a great storm washes a small whale onto the beach. The boy discovers the whale is a good listener. The father discovers the boy is lonely. Together, they return the whale to the sea. And from that day on, the boy learns that the father can be a good listener too"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 890L
Language
English
Description
When Sally and her brother spot a beached whale on their way home from school in Maine, the town races to save the whale. Meanwhile, Sally sits close to the whale's eye and assures the stranded creature of its strength and beauty.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After Jonah disobeys God and sets sail, he finds himself in the belly of a great whale. He learns a valuable lesson in forgiveness while trapped inside the whale for three days.
18) Big new friend
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Description
"Clifford and Emily Elizabeth are going on an adventure! The two friends hear a story about a mysterious white whale who lives off the coast of Birdwell Island. Her name is Babette, and she's the same size as Clifford-which makes her the perfect new friend for the big red dog! Clifford and Emily Elizabeth try everything to get Babette to come out of hiding"--
19) To the sea
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tim, a boy, and Sam, a blue whale lost in the city, both feel unnoticed until they meet, and they become best friends as Tim tries to help Sam get back home.
Author
Series
Seedbank volume 3
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Nau cannot remember a time when she was not one with the world around her: with the fast breeze, the green grass, the high clouds, and the endless blue sky above the Shingled Spit. But her greatest joy is to visit the sea, where whales gather every morning to gaily spout rainbows. Then, one day, she finds a man in the mist where a whale should be: Reu, who has taken human form out of his Great Love for her. Together these first humans become parents...
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