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Lexile/Reading Level
AD640L Recommended for Kindergarten-2 Grades

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Fiction | Picture Book | Realistic | Science

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Baby Whale’s Journey

Off the Pacific coast of Mexico, a whale is born. Swimming beside Mama Whale, and surrounded by a protective pod, Baby Whale begins to grow and learn. She dives in the deep dark through swirling galaxies of luminous fish. She encounters dangerous orcas and a giant squid. Soon Baby can leap and blow, and comes to know all the ways of the whales and the sea.Continuing the nature series that includes The Eyes of Gray Wolf, Condor’s Egg and Honeypaw and Lightfoot, Jonathan London’s simple, poetic prose captures the tenderness and drama in the life of the endangered sperm whale. Jon Van Zyle’s dynamic illustrations reveal the grace and magnificence of these mighty mammals. An informative afterword and a reader’s guide are included.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Varies - Recommended for 10-12 Grades

Moby Dick

In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author’s lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grades

Whalesong: A Novel About the Greatest and Deepest of Beings (Whalesong Trilogy #1)

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Once upon a moonlit sea, a whale was born and began his song of his long and eventful journey through the great oceans.
Hruna’s voyage takes him to many things. Seals, dolphins and Ala the seagull all guide him on his travels and help him during times of great danger and great joy.
And before his song is over, Hruna is put to the ultimate test when he leads a daring rescue amongst the icebergs, and saves his pod from the whalers.

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Lexile/Reading Level
590L

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Animal | Nonfiction | Science

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Wild Whale Watch (The Magic School Bus Chapter Books #3)

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The Magic School Sub takes the kids deep into the ocean, where they learn all sorts of fascinating facts about whales.

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD460L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Picture Book | Realistic

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Symphony of Whales

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Glashka can . . . but with that mysterious power comes great responsibility. When she discovers thousands of whales trapped in a rapidly freezing inlet, she knows it is up to her to gather the people of her town to help them.
Based on an actual event, this inspiring story follows Glashka and her people as they come to understand the importance of all life.

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA - Recommended for K-3 Grade

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Adventure | Fantasy | Fiction | Picture Book

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Burt Dow, Deep Water Man

Whenever Burt Dow, who lives in a snug little house on the Maine coast, sets out to sea, his pet giggling gull goes along. But this time, it will take all his might and some plain old ingenuity to save him and the gull from a raging storm.

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD810L

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Adventure | Fantasy | Fiction

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Amos and Boris

Amos the mouse and Boris the whale: a devoted pair of friends with nothing at all in common, except good hearts and a willingness to help their fellow mammal. They meet after Amos sets out to sea in his homemade boat, the “Rodent,” and soon finds himself in extreme need of rescue. Enter Boris. But there will come a day, long after Boris has gone back to a life of whaling about and Amos has gone back to his life of mousing around, when the tiny mouse must find a way to rescue the great whale.The tender yet comical story of this friendship is recorded in text and pictures that are a model of rich simplicity. Here, with apparent ease and concealed virtuosity, Caldecott medalist William Steig brings two winning heroes to life.

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Lexile/Reading Level
NA - Recommended for 10 and up Grades

Water Sky


Water Sky is a novel about a young man named Lincoln who is supposed to kill a whale. His father’s friend, Vincent Ologak, tells him the whale will give itself to Lincoln. Does Lincoln kill the whale?

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