Dancing the Seas

by Ben M. Baglio

Book Overview

Jody McGrath's dolphin dreams are coming true! Her whole family is sailing around the world researching dolphins - and Jody is recording all their exciting adventures in her diary!In the Marquesas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439446155
• ISBN13: 9780439446150
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Almost Magical

Jody, her family, and the crew aboard "Dolphin Dreamer" are thrilled as, after weeks at sea, they reach the beautiful and exciting Marquesas Islands. With so much to see and do, everyone is feeling energized and ready for what lies ahead. But while each person seems to have a different idea of "fun" on the islands, one thing is and has always been the main focus: dolphins. Especially for Jody, who has just befriended a spinner dolphin whom she named "Twister". Multiple adventures in the book keep you interested and in a bit of suspense while the less exciting moments make up for in detail and imagination what they lack in excitement. The book is engulfing and fun, while also being educational. It's not fantastic literature, but it contains bits and pieces of knowledge about dolphins and the places where Jody and her family visit that readers might not have known before. My only comment is that the dolphins seem unrealistic in parts. I know dolphins are intelligent but the chances of Jody befriending a wild dolphin in every group that they come across are very, very, VERY slim. I guess that it makes the story interesting, but Jody always befriending a wild dolphin in every book and the dolphins always doing things beyond what a normal wild dolphin would even think to do also make the story predictable in parts. So basically, the story is, as I said above, engulfing, fun, educational, and overall a very good read, but if you're older than...hm...maybe ten or eleven, expect a few kind of eye-rolling parts.

If You Love Dolphins and want to know more about them,

read this book. I read this series two summers ago when my friend loaned them to me. I was sick most of the summer. Even though I was stuck inside, the books took my mind to out on the ocean, and before I knew it, I felt like I was there swimming and learning about dolphins myself. ~MY ONLY confusion about this series is that when I went to buy the series for myself all the books I found had a different author, same story, same cover, but different author on the front cover. All my friend's books say Lucy Daniels one the front as theauthor, but all the books I find online and in stores have Ben M. Baglio written on the front as the author. ~Can someone please explain this to me?