Text copyright © 2014 Ellen Prager
Illustrations copyright © 2014 Antonio Javier Caparo
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Illustrations: Antonio Javier Caparo
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Editor: Karen Latchana Kenney
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Prager, Ellen J.
The shark whisperer / by Ellen Prager ; with illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo.
pages cm. — (Tristan Hunt and the sea guardians)
Summary: Gangly Tristan Hunt joins others who have special talents in the water at a special summer camp in the Florida Keys, but soon he must put fun and games aside to help respond to distress calls coming in from ocean animals.
ISBN 978-1-938063-45-9 (electronic : alk. paper)
[1. Camps—Fiction. 2. Ability—Fiction. 3. Marine animals—Fiction. 4. Shipwrecks—Fiction. 5. Buried treasure—Fiction. 6. Florida Keys (Fla.)—Fiction.] I. Caparó, Antonio Javier, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ7.P88642Sh 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013037699
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For those who dare to dive in!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
6 A POLITE CONVERSATION WITH AN OCTOPUS
