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“[Anne] McCaffrey here adds yet another dimension to her colorful and vivid saga by focusing on the attractive dolphins and their highly believable society.”—Publishers Weekly
When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars to colonize Pern’s oceans while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"The LEGO Friends have entered a school science contest to create an invention that will protect dolphins in the wild. The prize is five tickets aboard a special dolphin sight-seeing cruise!"--
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When a baby albino dolphin caught in old fishing netting washes ashore, Paralympics sailing hopeful Felix and English school girl Kara work with veterinarians and specialists to save and reunite the dolphin with her mother, setting off a chain of events that might just save the reef from the environmental effects of proposed dredging.
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Square Fish
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
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Tides of war (C. Alexander London) volume 1
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Cory McNab is a member of the Navy's Marine Mammal Program where he is partnered with a search-and-recovery dolphin named Kaj, and their new mission is to help locate a spy submersible lost in North Korean waters--but first they have to win the trust of the Navy SEALs who are assigned to deal with the problem.
8) Pod
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Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world--its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies--that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race. Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinner dolphin who has recently come of age, she's now expected to join in the elaborate rituals that unite her pod. But Ea suffers from a type of deafness that prevents her from mastering...
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