The Music Of Dolphins

A girl raised by dolphins must choose between two worlds in this critically acclaimed novel about what it means to be a human being. Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, SLJ Best Book of the Year, ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

Karen Hesse is the Newbery Medal-winning author of ten books for young readers, among them Out of the Dust, winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award; Letters from Rifka, winner of the Christopher Medal and the International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Fiction; Phoenix Rising, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; and Sable, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. "The Music of Dolphins began as a book about speech development, and evolved into something very different," says Ms. Hesse. "Mila proved to me she was more than a clinical specimen, just as she did to the characters in the book." Karen Hesse lives with her husband and two daughters in Williamsville, Vermont.