- Feral children, Diaries, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
A girl raised by dolphins must choose between two worlds in this critically acclaimed novel about what it means to be a human being.
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Character
Earnest, contemporary, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Karen Hesse
- First published
- January 1920
- Pages
- 181
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Scholastic, Dtv
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805035582
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First sentence
“Doctor Beck says, Where is the ear?”
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