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    High and Dry
    High and Dry
    High and Dry
    Ebook64 pages31 minutes

    High and Dry

    By Eric Walters and Sabrina Gendron

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    ★ “Walters has woven a touching story about the connection humans have with other living beings on Earth. Recommended for wide purchase.”—School Library Journal, starred review

    Dylan lives on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest with his parents, but when they have to go to the mainland, his grandfather weathers a storm to come spend time with him. Grandpa’s brought Dylan a number of gifts, and one comes in handy the next day while they are exploring the coast. In fact, this gift leads the duo to a dangerous discovery: a young orca got stuck on the rocks during the storm. Racing against the sun and the heat, Dylan and Grandpa need to work together to figure out how to save the calf while his pod circles nearby.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateFeb 25, 2020
    ISBN9781459823129
    High and Dry
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    Eric Walters

    Eric Walters, a former elementary school teacher, is a bestselling children’s author in Canada. He is the founder of Creation of Hope, which provides care for orphans in the Makueni district of Kenya. His recent books include The Rule of Three series and Nothing to Fear.

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      High and Dry - Eric Walters

      Nine

      Chapter One

      They stood on the dock, looking out at the ocean. The water was dark, with whitecaps, and there were even darker clouds in the sky. The winds were so strong that Dylan felt like they’d be blown away. Looking up, he could see an eagle being pushed along by the wind. Rather than soaring, it looked like it was fighting to get back to the shore. Dylan could feel spray on his face from the waves crashing on the rocks.

      Isn’t it stunning? his father said.

      What an incredible painting this would be! his mother exclaimed.

      I’ll try to capture it for you so you can paint it later.

      His father pulled out one of his ever-present cameras and began taking pictures.

      Dylan’s dad was a nature photographer, and his mother was a landscape painter. The three of them had lived on this little island for over ten months now, while his parents painted and took photographs. It was beautiful and wild and isolated. For them this had been a paradise to capture and recreate in photographs and paintings.

      Dylan loved being with his parents, and he loved their island home, but he found it a little lonely. It had been better in the summer, when there were other people on the island, living in their vacation homes. But through the winter months Dylan and his parents had been almost all alone, except for a few short visits from family and friends or the occasional summertime family checking on their property.

      Dylan was being homeschooled by his parents. Instead of going to school with other children, he did most of his lessons at the kitchen table. He liked that the lessons were different from those he’d had at his regular school, but he missed having other kids around. He missed recess. He missed gym class. He was looking forward to people coming back in the summer. It would be nice to have kids to play with again.

      It’s hard to believe our time is almost up, his father said.

      We still have more than four months, his mother answered.

      At the end of the summer still to come, they’d go back to their house on the mainland, and Dylan would go back to school. It made him happy thinking about going home to their house, his school and his old friends. He was looking forward to all of that, but he would miss their island home too. He’d miss spending so much time with his parents. He’d miss sitting by the fireplace at night and reading. He’d miss their

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