Bibliograph

A 52-hertz whale, Bill Sommer and Natalie Haney Tilghman

Type

Label

A 52-hertz whale, Bill Sommer and Natalie Haney Tilghman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1010, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A 52-hertz whale

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

919683442

Responsibility statement

Bill Sommer and Natalie Haney Tilghman

Summary

"It appears to be the only individual emitting a call at this frequency and hence, has been described as the world's loneliest whale."--WikipediaSo here's how it all starts: James, a high school freshman, is worried that the young humpback whale he tracks online has separated from its pod. So naturally he emails Darren, the twentysomething would-be filmmaker who volunteered in James's special education program back in middle school. Of course, Darren is useless on the subject of whales, but he's got nothing but time, given that the only girl he could ever love dumped him. And fetching lattes for his boss has him close to walking out on his movie dream and boomeranging right back to his childhood bedroom.So why not reply to a random email from Whale Boy?Predictably, this thread of emails leads to a lot of bizarre stuff, including a yeti suit, drug smuggling, widows, a major documentary filmmaking opportunity, first love, a graveyard, damaged echolocation, estranged siblings, restraining orders, choke holds, emergency dentistry...and then maybe ends with something like understanding.See, it turns out that the thing that binds people together most is their fear that nothing binds them together at all

Target audience

adolescent

resource.variantTitle

Fifty-two hertz whale

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