Lucyk-Berger, Chrystyna,

Swimming with spies / Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger. - 267 pages : map ; 22 cm.

"It's February of 2014 in the seaport city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Sofiya Oleksandrivna only wants two things: to figure out a way to get Ilya Ilyich to stop bullying her, and to convince her mother to come back home. But as battleships come to populate the waters around their city and Russian forces, including Ilya's father, start to make their presence known, an even greater threat takes over Sofiya's life. The only escape Sofiya has is the dolphinarium where her father is a trainer at the forefront of teaching sign language to a pod of dolphins. And now the Russian military has ordered the dolphinarium to hand over its animals for military use. As armed Russian troops invade Crimea and conflict and tension continue to rise, Sofiya will do everything she can to keep her pod safe. And what she knows better than any of the soldiers occupying her city, is that the most powerful force is communication."--

"Middle grade; ages 8 through 12" -- back cover.

ISBN: 9781339012469 1339012464 9781546145899 1546145893

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Families
Soldiers
Dolphins
Sign language
Human-animal communication
Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-