I would give this book a 4 star rating because it was well written, and just a great book. Kara is facing the disappearance of her mother and her fathers money problem and only gets her mind off things when she is out at sea sailing in her fathers boat. She was struggling a lot with her mom never coming back from her business. This book shows how this could really happen in real life, and how this girl, Kara was facing and trying to get through it. I would definitely recommend this book. *DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS BOOK! IT WILL SPOIL THE WHOLE THING FOR YOU!* Kara is the main focus of this book, she is young but is stubborn as a mule. Her Dad, Jim is trying to keep a job at the Merry Mermaid until the end of summer when it closes he is just trying to keep things simple & trying to keep his daughter safe. They are living with Kara's Dad's Sister, Bev along with her bun in the oven, her daughter Daisy & husband Tom. This story takes place in the schoolyard, Kara's Aunt Bev's house, the beach, Felix's house, the ocean & the cove. After the terrifying & horrifying disappearance of Kara's Mum, her & her Dad are left with nothing. The only things Kara has are a memory stick with a dolphin on it & a shell. Her Mum was a marine biologist, she managed to hold a dredging ban for the reef & it was for only 10 years, since the disappearance of her Mum has occurred the dredging ban is being lifted. Kara is furious. When the ban is lifted Dougie Evans is going to dredge the reef & do everything he can to tear it up. Jake, which is Dougie's son absolutely hates Kara, but it goes both ways. Jake always teases Kara, also he's mean to her about her Dad's dyslexia & how her Mum always wrote his name for him. He questioned who wrote his name for him now. Ethan is Jake's friend & is mean to Kara as well. When Jake & Ethan kept teasing Kara then spoke of Moana being sold, Jake mentioned his Dad was going to buy her and chop her up for fire since it was all she's good for. Kara had had enough, she threw the Bible at Jake's nose. She saw her teacher,Mrs. Carter coming & took off because she had broken Jake's nose. Kara ran to find her Dad, & went home to ask Aunt Bev, but she wouldn't tell her so she lied that she had forgotten something, so she ran upstairs to the room she shared with her little cousin, Daisy. She asked if she had seen her Dad. Daisy said he took his long fishing poles & bait. Kara thanked her & got ready to leave after she got her swimming bag with her goggled beside it. As much as Kara wanted to leave she couldn't because Dougie Evans's vehicle was parked in the driveway. He asked of Kara and where she was. Aunt Bev lied, she said Kara was at school & asked what she had done. Dougie answered angrily saying she had broken Jake's nose. Aunt Bev told him again that Kara was at school, but her lie wasn't good enough. Kara & Daisy heard footsteps on the stairs. Kara pushed her cot up against the door & grabbed her swimming bag that she had sat down. The only way Kara could go was out the window & off the roof. Daisy mouthed the word "go" to Kara. Kara heard Dougie opening the door ordering her to let him in, but she jumped onto the roof, & then to the ground. She saw Dougie looking through the window, but she thought to herself that nobody could stop her now. She kept running until she got to the dock & stopped her Dad before he left. She yelled at him to wait & he did so Kara gradually pushed the boat from the dock then proceeded by hopping into the boat. Her Dad questioned why she wasn't at school, but she changed the subject & asked if he was really selling Moana & he nodded & said yes. Kara jumped off the boat and swam to the cove. After sitting there for a few minutes she saw a flash of white. Then she saw it again, and again. It was the White Dolphin, a sign that Mum's still out there. Kara's Dad doesn't believe her but Kara ignores what he thinks of that. Kara began walking home and a vehicle pulled up beside her and the passenger window rolled down, it was Aunt Bev. She told Kara to get in so she did. Kara was wishing now that she would've took the fields home. Aunt Bev told Kara her Dad was worried sick about her. After they had found Kara they called her Dad & told her they found her. Kara's Dad came home later that night and hugged her so much. Later in the book Kara hears of a huge great white shark that Dougie Evans has caught. When she figures out where it is Chloe tries to pull her back and is in tears. She told Kara not to look but she did anyway. Once Kara got up to the front she saw a grey dolphin in a fishing net. Angel the white dolphin's, mother was dead. Kara ran and ran until she had gotten home. Angel had already been held in captivity before because she had been caught in a fishing net now her mother has been killed by Dougie Evans. Even later they hold an event to stop the dredging ban from being lifted. They ended up getting more than 600 people to sign it in less than 2 hours. They got their wish. The dredging ban stays. Towards the end Jake and Ethan are saved by Kara and Felix because Dougie bought Moana and the boys decided to sail her when a storm was coming in. When Jake fell out of the boat Kara went to pull him up and thought she saw a flash of white but ignored it at the time. Felix took Jake & Kara took Ethan. They both returned safely and now Kara and her Dad are living in a trailer with an ocean view and are as happy as can be.
What do You think about White Dolphin (2012)?
This is a book about a girl who tries to help save the reef with another boy named Felix.
—Jesd
i think that the dolphin will swim together with a humin
—conol2909
A very heart touching book with lovable characters.
—angiesmith21984
