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Trapped!: A Whale's Rescue
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In the icy waters of the Pacific, a massive humpback whale unexpectedly finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen. When a rescue boat and a convoy of divers arrive to help the struggling humpback, a realistic and moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds.
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Robert Burleigh
Robert Burleigh was born and raised in Chicago and later attended DePauw University. He has been publishing children's books since the early 1990s. In addition to writing, he paints regularly under the name Burleigh Kronquist and has had his work shown individually and with groups in Chicago, New York, and elsewhere around the United States.
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