Young Llama Thoughts
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Adventurous
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Christian Friendly
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Easy Reading
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Humerous
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Youth Appropriate
Overall
Review
I LOVE this book! This is book 1 in a series about saving ocean life and I am a bit obsessed! With mystery, danger, friendship and adventure, this is a great novel for boys 8 and up.
This book is about Luke, Maribel and Sabina, 3 tweens who are each trying to find their way in their new Florida home. Luke is trying to recover from being struck by lightning and he isn’t certain going back to normal is an option. Maribel and Sabina are trying to figure out America from their Cuban home. The only thing they agree on, is the sharks need saving. Especially from the poachers taking their fins for soup! But not all is as it seems, and the 3 friends must work as a team to save their new home and their shark friends.
I really enjoyed this book! It’s clean, funny and very interesting. I love all the facts about sharks the characters learn and I think kids would adore this book series! There is some violence. Sharks get hurt, killed, mention of dying from cut off fins. There isn’t too much blood or gore, it is clean for kids.
Overall, this story was amazing and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!!!! If you love books like Hoot by Carl Hiaasen or Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs, this is a great option for you!!! -The Young Llama Reader.
Pros
- A great shark themed mystery!
- Full of adventure and friendship!!!
Cons
- Some violence and blood
The world’s shark population is in trouble for a sad, simple reason: shark fin soup. And although it’s illegal, poachers have been targeting Florida’s biannual migration of blacktip sharks.
Marine biologist Doc Ford needs some assistance protecting the sharks and enlists the help of three kids―Luke, Maribel and Sabina. Luke is brand-new to Florida from the Midwest; sisters Maribel and Sabina have only recently arrived from Cuba―and all three feel like fish out of water. It’s going to take some convincing for them to work as a team and to recognize in themselves the courage, wisdom and tenacity that Doc sees in them.
Together they form Sharks, Inc. and are given an important assignment: to set out each day on their small fishing boat in hopes of tagging sharks for Doc’s research―and to stay away―far away―from any possible poachers in the area.
The trio certainly isn’t looking for trouble, but when they come face to face with danger, survival requires them to rely on each of their own unique gifts, and especially on one another.
