Kinry Road Library
Fiction books about or including whales
FIC BAI
Bailey, Jill. Project
Whale. Austin, TX : Steck Vaughn,
c1991. Walter Coleman takes six tourists on his boat to observe
the gray whales giving birth in a protected lagoon. Similar fictional
vignettes combined with factual information focus on the behavior
and endangered situation of several species of whales.
FIC CAR
Carris, Joan Davenport. A
Ghost of a Chance : a novel.
1st ed. Little, Brown, c1992. Punch and his friends spend a summer
in North Carolina looking at dolphins, hunting for Blackbeard's
buried treasure, and watching out for the famed pirate's ghost.
FIC DUA
Duane, Diane. Deep wizardry. New York : Delacorte, c1985.
During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old
wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard
S'reee in combating an evil power.
FIC HES
Hesse, Karen. The Music
of Dolphins. 1996. SCHOLASTIC.
Mila is rescued from an island off the coast of Florida.
FIC MEL
Selden, Bernice. Moby
Dick. Mahwah, N.J. : Troll Associates,c1988.
A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in
pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
FIC SAC
Sachs, Elizabeth-Ann. Kiss
me, Janie Tannenbaum. 1st ed.
Toronto : New York : Atheneum ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ;
Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992. Janie gains a new
perspective on boys when she and her boy-crazy best friend
go on a whale watching expedition.
FIC MIK
Mikaelsen, Ben. Stranded. New York : Hyperion Paperbacks for Children,
1996, c1995. 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.
FIC ODE
O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. Island
of the Blue Dolphins. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Unusual story of an Indian girl who spent
eighteen years alone on a rocky island off the coast of California.
FIC ODE
O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. Zia. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1976. A young Indian
girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother
and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana
whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
FIC PAC
Packard, Edward, 1931-. Secret
of the Dolphins. Bantam Books,c1993.
While interning at the renowned Dolphin Institute in Hawaii you
hope to find the treasure-filled city of the dolphins and make
scientific history.
FIC SCH
Schuch, Steve. A Symphony
of Whales. 1st ed. San Diego,
Calif.: Harcourt Brace, c1999. Young Glashka's dream of the singing
of whales, accompanied by a special kind of music, leads to the
rescue of thousands of whales stranded in a freezing Siberian
bay.
FIC THR
Thrush, Robin A. The
Gray Whales are Missing. 1st ed.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1987. Just as his matchmaking efforts
seem to be working with his widowered father and his
favorite teacher, ten-year-old Pence becomes involved in
investigating why the migrating gray whales have deviated
from their normal course off the California coast.
