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Bullied at school for her dyslexia and troubled by her mother's unexplained disappearance, Kara seeks sanctuary sailing the ocean's waves in her father's boat. Meanwhile, Felix resents his well-meaning parents for dragging him to live by the coast and misses his old friends back in London.
Introduction;
Gill Lewis’s second novel focuses on a child who is passionate about wildlife and
the environment, and who is helped through emotional trauma by saving a
particular wild creature. In this it is similar to her first novel, Sky Hawk, but the
setting has shifted from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall, where Gill Lewis
explores an entire community, its tensions and divided loyalties, and its part in
the story of an injured white dolphin calf.
Like Sky Hawk, White Dolphin is ideal as a class reader for upper primary or lower
secondary pupils, as a text for a reading group, or the focus of a project for pupils
transferring to secondary school. It encourages children to think about issues
such as:
Humans’ relationship with the natural world and our responsibility to care
for it.
The choices that have to be made in towns where many people make their
living from the sea.
The challenges and benefits of living all year round in a place where people
go on holiday.
How sharing ideals with a lost loved one is a way of keeping them with us.
How to accept when someone or something precious is finally lost.
Our attitudes to disability and special educational needs.
Synopsis;
Kara lives with her father Jim in a fishing village in Cornwall. Her mother, a marine
biologist, disappeared a year ago on a dolphin-saving expedition to the Solomon Islands
but Kara believes that she will return. This faith is strengthened by a rare sighting of a
white dolphin calf, which she sees as a sign that her mum is still out there.
Kara and Jim have been taken in by Kara’s aunt and uncle but money is tight so Jim is
forced to put the family boat, named Moana, up for sale. Kara is very unhappy about this,
as Moana is one of her last links to her missing mother.
Kara breaks the nose of the school bully, Jake, whose father, Dougie, owns the fishing
trawlers that employ her uncle. Kara’s mother had successfully campaigned for a ten-year
dredging ban to conserve the local coral reef, which is about to expire. Dougie blames
Kara’s mother for the loss of his elder son, who drowned whilst fishing beyond the ban
limit. Jake vows that his family will destroy Kara and her father, and soon afterwards Jim’s
lobster pots are sabotaged.
Kara meets a new boy at school, Felix, who has Cerebral Palsy. They do not hit it off and
when Felix’s father offers to buy Jim’s boat, Kara is determined to put him off sailing so
that she can keep Moana. Much to her surprise, Felix takes to sailing easily, finding that
his mobility difficulties are lessened at sea. Kara is relieved, however, when his father
decides not to buy Moana, opting instead for a more manageable dinghy that Felix can
sail singlehanded.
Kara finds the white dolphin calf trapped in a fishing net, beached and in distress. With
help from Felix, his father, and the marine rescue team, the calf is cared for in a tidal pool,
but becomes separated from the mother dolphin, meaning that it might have to be put
down as it cannot be returned to the wild alone. In a daring night dive, Kara finds the
mother dolphin and leads it to the tidal pool.
Meanwhile Kara is unable to find the password for her mother’s dolphin-shaped memory
stick, which she believes holds a crucial message.
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