The Music of Dolphins

They call her Mila, from the Spanish word for "miracle." Lost after a plane crash when she was small, Mila has been cared for ever since by dolphins. When she is eventually spotted on an unpopulated island off Cuba, she is an adolescent and seems hardly human to her rescuers. Mila is taken to a child study center in Boston. Eager to please, she makes rapid progress in language and social skills. With her recorder, Mila finds she can even make music like the dolphin songs she yearningly remembers. But the more Mila discovers about what it means to be human--the locked doors, the rules, the betrayals--the more she longs for her watery home and gentle dolphin family. In an emotionally wracking conclusion, she returns to the world where her ears never want for song. Where, although she cannot stand on her tail or jump the waves, she is part of the music of dolphins.

Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 02/01/1998
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.24w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9780590897983
ISBN10: 0590897985
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy | General
- Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Marine Life

About the Author
Karen Hesse is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of many books for children. Her titles include Witness, The Cats in Krasinski Square, and the Newbery Medal winner Out of the Dust, among many others. She lives in Vermont with her husband and two teenaged daughters.