A song for a whale5/25/2023 ![]() Her difficulties in communicating and connecting with other students lead her to sympathize greatly with Blue 55, a hybrid Baleen whale who can’t communicate with other whales because he sings at a much higher frequency. For reasons we won’t understand until later in the book, Iris attends a mainstream middle school where she is subjected to a well-meaning but overbearing student who doesn’t respect Iris’ boundaries and an ignorant teacher who treats Iris with disdain. The protagonist and narrator is a 12-year-old girl named Iris who was born deaf. Immediately, questions swirled in my head! Is she conducting a song for the whale? Can the whale possibly hear her? Is she safe? Is this real or magical? I was hooked before reading the first page. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cover of Song for a Whale drew me in like a moth to flame: a young girl standing on the edge of a pier with her arms outstretched, a large blue whale below her. ![]()
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