Chasing at the Surface. Sharon Mentyka

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       For my family,who forever encouraged me to chase my dream

      Text and illustrations © 2016 by Sharon Mentyka

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher.

      The characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this book are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Mentyka, Sharon.

      Title: Chasing at the surface : a novel / by Sharon Mentyka.

      Description: Portland, Oregon : WestWinds Press, [2016] | Summary: In 1997, twelve-year-old Marisa Gage retreats into her shell when nineteen orcas, mothers and new calves, become trapped in an inlet near her home soon after Marisa’s whale-loving mother inexplicably left.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016013250 | ISBN 9781943328604 (pbk.)

      Subjects: | CYAC: Whales—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Family life—Washington (State)—Fiction. | Washington (State)—Fiction.

      Classification: LCC PZ7.M53155 Ch 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016013250

      Front cover images: top, girl with binoculars: © iStock/SashaFoxWalters; top, under the sea surface: © iStock/John Shepherd; bottom, orca: © iStock/Jon Helgason.

      Edited by Michelle McCann

      Designed by Vicki Knapton

      Published by WestWinds Press®

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      Contents

       Prologue

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Author’s Note

       Acknowledgments

       Chasing at the Surface

      “How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when it is clearly Ocean.”

      —ARTHUR C. CLARKE

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