Books with title Where the Sea Meets the Sky

Little Sophie the sea otter gazes at the horizon and asks her mum, "What's at the place where the sea meets the sky?"Sophie's mum says that no one can reach the horizon, and no one should try. But Sophie reckons it doesn't look that far! She sets off on an exciting journey, meeting all sorts of sea creatures on the way - walruses and whales, lobsters and starfish . . . and someone a little more dangerous . . .A beautiful rhyming underwater adventure, stunningly illustrated by talented debut artist Riko Sekiguchi, winner of the 2018 Carmelite Prize.

One morning, twelve-year-old Hazel wakes to discover that her father, a brilliant physicist, has moved away in the middle of the night. It’s 1944, and Hazel’s father has agreed to help the U.S. government develop a secret weapon that will win World War II. His decision turns Hazel’s world upside-down - soon, she and her mother move out west to be with him, to a strange town with no name that everyone calls “the Hill.” The Hill is surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire. Armed guards patrol its perimeter night and day. With her new friend, Eleanor, Hazel goes on secret missions to try and solve the many mysteries that the Hill hides. Who is sending secret radio messages from the base? What happened to Eleanor’s cat? And most importantly, what is the mysterious “gadget” that the scientists are building day and night?

My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest in North Queensland, Australia.We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when extinct and rare animals lived in the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders?Jeannie Baker's lifelike collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to an exotic, primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now being threatened by civilization.

It's 1944, and war is raging in Europe and the Pacific. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Hazel is fighting her own battles somewhere in the New Mexico desert. Life has gotten increasingly complicated and lonely since Dad brought Mom and her to live on the Hill, an ugly place surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire. A brilliant physicist, he is working hard on the Big Mystery, while poor Mom, who has always believed that secrets are bad for the soul, has retreated into a world of her own. A powerful, fictional account of the development of the atomic bomb, this novel offers young readers no simple answers. It does, however, give them plenty to think about as well as an intriguing story populated by a background cast of some of the most important characters of the twentieth century.

Two years later might as well be two lifetimes.Sienna's in college, working hard to achieve her dreams, and trying to love another boy--and halfway succeeding. When that someone arrives at her doorstep, sparks don't just fly, they soar--and threaten to burn down the new life she's so patiently, persistently, built. When they're both invited to join a relief mission in Cambodia, they jump at the chance to help...and be together. As the time and distance between them melts away in the sticky Cambodian heat, Sienna knows her heart can't take losing him again. And that's exactly what might happen.Each title in the Sea series is best enjoyed in order:Series order:Book 1 - Where I Found YouBook 2 - Where the Sea Takes Me

"Where the river meets the sea" is a delightful fable that has revived the primitive art of storytelling. It is set in a quaint and provincial tropical paradise in post-colonial times. The story opens with the animals living serene and wild, frolicking in the forest, and enjoying its bounty, but soon thereafter their joys turn to sadness when the entire marsh is overtaken by a mysterious set of circumstances. As the plot unfolds the animals are joined by an urbane dog, Enos who flees from his master, the butcher, after a strange evil befalls him, and causes the butcher to lose trust is his faithfulness. The animals' demise begins with the horrifying decline of the river, and the descent of a mysterious heatwave that decimates their paradise. Their plight becomes worse when each passing day brings great swarms of flies into the marsh. Before long, their very survival is threatened, and this forces them to find a solution. It is then that the animals form a council consisting of only the greater animals, for there is a cast system in place that divides the marsh into greater and lesser beings. This council consists of, the urbane and domesticated Enos the dog; Mole the talkative rat, Bumpy the toad; Sly the belligerent Mongoose who has a mysterious disfigurement that has all the animals wondering what may have caused it; Dome a turtle who has retired from going to sea, and who tells stories of his time spent floating in the Sargasso Sea and feasting on jellyfish; and Hoot, the resident owl who plays the aloof and brilliant arbiter, and who also chronicles the history of the clan. When all seems lost a solution is found. The council quickly sends pilgrims from the marsh. The chosen ones travel to the land of the Imps, a fabled place that until then had existed only in legends, and which is hidden in the deep forested regions of Mount Diablo. If only they could reach this place in time before the portal closes, they would find the remedy for their plight. And yet the journey takes several days, during which Enos meets a crossroads and catches the scent of wild boars. This revives his memory of the past, and of his life with the butcher. The recollection compels the dog to choose between fulfilling the mission to save the marsh clan, and to revisit the butcher. This creates the pivoting point of the saga, as whatever Enos chooses, will result in the neglect of an equally powerful desire. His choice determines the entire history of the marsh clan.

WHERE THE SAND MEETS THE SEA is a collection of sea stories told the author by both his Grandfather, Arthur F. Phillips and Grandmother Emma C. Eledredge, Phillips, whose father was a sea Captain who sailed to the Orient in the middle to late 1800s. The author having a love for the sea includes his own concept of sea stories and poems of what the life of seafaring men and women faced in the days of sail. The author was born and raised in Chatham, Mass.., once not much more than a small fishing village at the end of the days of sail and heard the tales of the sea as told by those who lived them. He also remembers seeing ships of sail pass by Chatham when he was a young child.

Ten years have passed since civil war tore the Northern kingdom apart. Though peace has been declared, it is a fragile thing and new currents threaten to sunder bonds of blood and friendship. When Duke mac Cuill is taken by Southern runners, his friends must find and free him before poisoned whispers destroy the elven alliance forever. The elven scout, Gwendyrion, searches for his friend but fights a silent war of his own against the whispers of the sea that threaten his sanity. Giles, newly trained wizard and ward of Duke mac Cuill, heads south by land, determined to save the only person he calls family. But his magic has taken on a life of its own. Neither can walk away but saving their friend may ultimately destroy them both.

.Where the Ocean Meets the Sky is a thought-provoking fantasy about a group of philosophical beach-dwelling centipedes who try to cross the ocean.Because the centipedes have little contact with humans, no natural predators, and a limitless supply of insect prey beneath a nearby lamp post, they have time to indulge their philosophical investigations without distraction, carrying on telepathic conversations from dusk to dawn.One night Banner announces that Renwin, his eccentric mentor, has a scheme to cross the ocean, curious to see what lies on the other side. But the plan is met with scorn rather than enthusiasm, and Banner spends long nights struggling to win his friends’ support, especially after Renwin’s initial experiments with bottles and styrofoam cups prove disastrous. The centipedes debate the plan within the safe crevices of their driftwood home, while Renwin spends sleepless days in search of a “floater.” His wanderings eventually lead him to a port, filled with giant floaters that don’t immediately sink in the tide. He and Banner persuade most of the colony to join them for an adventure from which there can be no return, a voyage to a farther shore.