"At first Keri thought she was seeing some great rock, but it was a rock where no rock should be. It had a snout all blunt and V-shaped. The snout started just below the tide line and became a body. It flowed on into the water. Somewhere there must be tail flukes.
"'Holy,' she murmured and stood stock still."
A humpback whale had appeared on the beach, and only Keri and her brother know it's there. Something must be done, but how can two kids help a creature that big?
It is Keri who decides that they alone will save the whale, no matter how impossible the odds. After all, hard work and stubborn determination have always meant survival for her people in the past... haven't they?
Jan Andrews is the author of several popular children's books, including the much-acclaimed Very Last First Time, illustrated by Ian Wallace, which has been published in six countries. Keri is her first novel.
"At first Keri thought she was seeing some great rock, but it was a rock where no rock should be. It had a snout all blunt and V-shaped. The snout started just below the tide line and became a body. It flowed on into the water. Somewhere there must be tail flukes.
"'Holy,' she murmured and stood stock still."
A humpback whale had appeared on the beach, and only Keri and her brother know it's there. Something must be done, but how can two kids help a creature that big?
It is Keri who decides that they alone will save the whale, no matter how impossible the odds. After all, hard work and stubborn determination have always meant survival for her people in the past... haven't they?
Jan Andrews is the author of several popular children's books, including the much-acclaimed Very Last First Time, illustrated by Ian Wallace, which has been published in six countries. Keri is her first novel.