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    Orca in Open Water
    Orca in Open Water
    Orca in Open Water
    Ebook76 pages49 minutes

    Orca in Open Water

    By Emma Bernay, Emma Carlson Berne and Erwin Madrid

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    When an orca is rescued from a less-reputable aquarium and brought to Seaside Sanctuary, the seaside marine biology facility where her parents work, Elsa Roth is excited to help with the animal's care and rehab. It's a crucial step before it can be released into the wild. But the whale has been in captivity for a long time. It's up to Elsa and the rest of the sanctuary staff to teach the animal how to live on its own-the whale's survival depends on it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateFeb 1, 2019
    ISBN9781496581778
    Orca in Open Water
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    Emma Bernay

    Emma Carlson Berne has written more than a dozen books for children and young adults, including teen romance novels, biographies, and history books. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, Aaron, her son, Henry, and her dog, Holly. Emma Carlson Berne has written numerous historical and biographical books for children and young adults, as well as young adult fiction. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband and two sons.

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      Orca in Open Water - Emma Bernay

      Table of Contents

      Cover

      Half Title Page

      Title Page

      Dear Diary

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      About the Illustrator

      Glossary

      Talk About It

      Write About It

      More About Orcas

      Seaside Sanctuary

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      Copyright

      Back Cover

      Dear Diary,

      The past few months have been crazy, and not just because I moved across the country. I never thought we’d leave Chicago. The city was home my whole life. I loved the rumbling above-ground trains, the massive skyscrapers, the sidewalks filled with people.… Believe it or not, I even liked my school. It was the type of place where it was cool to be smart.

      But then, right after school ended for the year, Mom and Dad announced we were moving. They decided to leave their jobs as marine biologists at the Shedd Aquarium and move the whole family to Charleston, South Carolina! They both got jobs running someplace called Seaside Sanctuary Marine Wildlife Refuge—jobs that were too good to pass up, as they put it.

      And at first, I couldn’t believe Seaside Sanctuary would ever seem like home. Everything was different—the humidity, the salty air, the palmetto trees, the old brick streets lined with massive live oaks. Not to mention the flat, quiet beaches with water warm enough to swim in all year—you don’t see that along Lake Michigan.

      But it hasn’t all been bad. For starters, I met my best friend, Olivia, on my first day at Seaside Sanctuary. She was sitting by the turtle pool, reading. By the end of the morning, I knew three very important things about Olivia:

      Her older sister, Abby, is the vet at the sanctuary.

      She doesn’t like talking to people she doesn’t know.

      She wants to be a dolphin researcher when she grows up.

      And I knew we were going to be best friends.

      I still miss Chicago. But between helping the volunteers with feedings, cleaning tanks, showing tourists around, and prepping seal food in the industrial-sized blender, I haven’t had much time to think about my old life. And one thing is for sure—at Seaside Sanctuary, I’m never lonely, and I’m never bored.

      Chapter 1

      Let’s move out! the captain shouted. The sharp blast of a horn sounded over the Puget Sound Harbor. The engines rumbled beneath my feet, and the Marie Curie, the research boat I was standing on, pulled away from the dock.

      I glanced over at Olivia, and we tightened our fingers on the metal railings of the bow of the ship. I couldn’t believe where we were. We’d flown out to the state of Washington—clear across the country from Charleston—two days ago. We weren’t alone, of course. My mom was there too. She was taking part in a month-long expedition to study the diet of orca whales near the San Juan Islands.

      When Mom first told me where she was going, I thought she’d meant somewhere in the Caribbean. But it turned out that the San Juan Islands were in the Pacific Northwest, off the coast of Washington. And when I found out the expedition was during summer break, I begged her to let Olivia and me come along. After what seemed like weeks of talking and phone calls and forms, the three of us boarded a plane for Seattle.

      The minute my sneakers crunched on the gravel path of the San Juan Marine Mammal Sanctuary, I felt like I was back at home. The outdoor pools for the small seals, the otter habitat, the big pool for rehabbing dolphins—if I closed my eyes, I might as well have been back at Seaside Sanctuary. They even had a wild

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