The Shark Whisperer

Text copyright © 2014 Ellen Prager

Illustrations copyright © 2014 Antonio Javier Caparo

Published by Scarletta Junior Readers, an imprint of Scarletta

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Illustrations: Antonio Javier Caparo

Design by Mighty Media, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota

Interior: Chris Long
     
Cover: Anders Hanson

Editor: Karen Latchana Kenney

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Prager, Ellen J.

The shark whisperer / by Ellen Prager ; with illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo.

pages
     
cm. — (Tristan Hunt and the sea guardians)

Summary: Gangly Tristan Hunt joins others who have special talents in the water at a special summer camp in the Florida Keys, but soon he must put fun and games aside to help respond to distress calls coming in from ocean animals.

ISBN 978-1-938063-45-9 (electronic : alk. paper)

[1. Camps—Fiction. 2. Ability—Fiction. 3. Marine animals—Fiction. 4. Shipwrecks—Fiction. 5. Buried treasure—Fiction. 6. Florida Keys (Fla.)—Fiction.] I. Caparó, Antonio Javier, illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.P88642Sh 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2013037699

Distributed by Publishers Group West

For those who dare to dive in!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  
1
   
INTO THE SHARK POOL

  
2
   
BEHIND THE JUNGLE WALL

  
3
   
THE GIANT SLIMY SNAIL CAFÉ

  
4
   
SHOWTIME!

  
5
   
A SWIM SURPRISE

  
6
   
A POLITE CONVERSATION WITH AN OCTOPUS

  
7
   
THE SHARKS' REQUEST

  
8
   
THE SITUATION ROOM

  
9
   
TRAINING WAVES

10
   
A FIB AND A FIELD TRIP

11
   
LOOPS AND ROLLS

12
   
THE OCEAN LIGHTS UP

13
   
ONE BIG BIRD

14
   
THE CAVE

15
   
CRABS ON RECON

16
   
FLOCK WARFARE

17
   
OVERBOARD!

18
   
SAND TRAP

19
   
THE FLYING IGUANA

20
   
A SHOCKING DISCOVERY

21
   
RETURN TO SEA CAMP

22
   
SNAGGLE-TOOTH SMILES

        
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

        
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

        
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

1

INTO THE SHARK POOL

A
SUDDEN UNNATURAL HUSH FELL OVER THE
crowd. All eyes were fixed on the pool below. It was the worst of their nightmares come to life. Just the thought of evil unblinking eyes, blood, and hundreds of sharp teeth was enough to scare the pants off even the bravest of bystanders.

“A boy's fallen in,” a young mother shouted, covering her daughter's eyes. “Call 9-1-1! Do something! He'll be eaten alive!”

The woman's daughter, who had been calm before, now tore from her mother's grasp. She ran from the scene screaming, her arms waving wildly. The girl dashed straight into the mob rushing toward her. People were running
to
the aquarium's shark pool, a dark curiosity drawing them like flies to roadkill.
The commotion even attracted the local seagulls. About fifty flocked to the site. Their loud high-pitched squawking and a barrage of bird poop bombs added to the growing chaos.