Grayson Paperback - 2008
by Lynne Cox
One dark morning while the 17-year-old author was training for a long-distance swim, she became aware that something was swimming with her--a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother. This is the magical, mysterious tale of how Cox miraculously reunited mother and baby.
Summary
The true story of a miraculous encounter between a teenaged girl and a baby whale off the coast of California
It was the dark of early morning; seventeen-year-old Lynne Cox was swimming her last half mile back to the pier after a long workout when she became aware that something was swimming with her. The ocean was charged with energy as if a squall was moving in; whatever it was felt large enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her body. In fact, it was a baby gray whale. Lynne quickly realized that if she swam back to the pier, the young calf would follow her to shore and die from collapsed lungs. On the other hand, if Lynne didn’t find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death. Something so enormous—the mother whale would be at least fifty feet long—suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific Ocean. This is the story—part mystery, part magical tale—of what happened.
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"Don t believe in interspecies communication? Grayson, author Cox s moving memoir about the lost baby whale she encountered when she was 17, just might change your mind."--People
"An account of courage and adventure artfully rendered with the joy, wonder, and suspense it deserves." The Boston Globe
"Together [Cox and Grayson] journey to the eventual mother-and-child reunion through a fantastical world of giant ocean sunfish, bat rays with five-foot wingspans and a school of dolphins." The New York Times
"Cox unfurls a shining hydrography of the waterscape . . . She is a canny observer of her watery surroundings, a plain-spoken natural historian of its citizens, and a rhapsodist of its fearful magic." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A joyful and charming tale." The Christian Science Monitor"
Details
- Title Grayson
- Author Lynne Cox
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-02-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780156034678 / 0156034670
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 6.18 x 0.55 in (19.71 x 15.70 x 1.40 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
- Reading level 920
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Swimmers - United States, Cox, Lynne - Childhood and youth
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007037895
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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