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Illustrations copyright © 2014 Antonio Javier Caparo
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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
6 A POLITE CONVERSATION WITH AN OCTOPUS
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