Books with title Manatee Blues

"The plight of the gentle giant manatee is clearly presented in a photo-essay...In a straightforward narrative the author speaks directly to the reader as she describes the mammals and her two-year experience `on location' with the manatees who live in the Crystal River of Florida....A good, solid piece of interesting and informative nonfiction that will be welcomed for its quality as well as for its subjet."--Horn Book.

Dive into this colorful title featuring one of the biggest animals on earth! This title gives kids a chance to learn all about Manatees, like where they live, how big they are next to a human, their body characteristics, family life and more. Kids will love the engaging color photographs, simple text, and fun facts about these larger than life beings. A quick quiz is provided for additional reading and learning fun! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

It is a fantasy adventure novel especially for young readers. The setting is a small island off the coast of Venezuela. It's a story of a baby boy, attached to a rubber raft on a yacht sailing from the island of Trinidad who gets washed overboard in a storm and found by a nefarious scientist, the inventor of an artificial gill. He uses the baby as a guinea pig and successfully implants gills under his arms. When a tidal wave washes over the island, where the scientist and his assistant have their laboratory, they are drowned and the baby is washed out to sea. A female dolphin, that has just lost her newborn calf, finds the baby and adopts him as her own and names him Manatee. She raises him to be part of the dolphin group and teaches him to be like a dolphin. He learns to swim like them, develops amazing strength, and learns their language. He is twelve years old when he discovers his human origin which opens up a whole new world of adventure for Manatee.