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Leigh Ann’s Recs No. 4 – Song for a Whale

Book cover for Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly. At the top of the cover is the sentence, Be loud about something. Beneath that is the silhouette of a girl standing on a pier, her arms stretched wide. The moon is large and setting behind her, and the yellow treeline is reflected on the water such that it resembles a sound wave. At the bottom of the cover is a whale swimming, and bubbles rising towards the surface. Most prominent colors are blue, purple, green, and yellow.

“Can you imagine that?” Ms. Alamilla asked. “Swimming around for all those years, unable to communicate with anyone?”

Yes.

She said something else about frequencies, but I wasn’t paying attention anymore. I looked through Mr. Charles, as if I could still see that whale on the screen. Blue 55 didn’t have a pod of friends or a family who spoke his language. But he still sang. He was calling and calling, and no one heard him.