Amazon.com info for 'The Music of Dolphins'

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Rating: 4 Summary: The Music of Dolphins: A heart-warming tale
Comment This book was amazing! A young girl the humans called "Mila" is found near the island of Cuba and brought into the National Institute of Mental Health in Miami, Florida. After she starts learning to speak, Mila is continuously asking when she can return to her dolphin family. As the novel moves along, Mila learns more and more about why she can't return to her dolphin family. The longer she is with humans the more she longs for the sea. Will Mila be reunited with her Fishy Family? I know what you're thinking. I'm not telling you. You will have to read it like everyone else.
I loved how this book was put into autobiographical form. Because it is written from the point of view of Mila, as her vocabulary and her knowledge grow the story becomes more and more complicated. I also enjoyed how vividly the author describes the characters in the book. The author uses imagery to make you feel like your really there. I would recommend this fantastic novel to anyone who likes heart-warming tales.

Rating: 5 Summary: Our summer book club loved this book!
Comment We are a book club of girls entering [...]. We all loved this book. There was so much to discuss and talk about. We loved exploring the differences between Shay, who was not shown love, and Mila, who had a loving dolphin family. Shay was unable to respond to human contact or relate to music at all. Even though the tug of the sea and her life with the dolphins eventually reclaims Mila, she makes a valiant attempt at living in the world of men.

Rating: 3 Summary: A speechless dolphin
Comment I am writing this because I am doing it for a reading assignment. I rated it 2 ½ stars because it was catchy but the point of the story was given away in the middle of the story.
I would recommend this book to kids from the ages of 9-12 because it is easy at the beginning and it gets harder towards the middle.

Rating: 3 Summary: The adventures of the lost dolphin girl
Comment I'm writing this assignment for our 7th grade humanities class.
I liked the description they used to describe each character. I disliked when they give almost everything away, like when she goes swimming she sees people in white and it's obvious their doctors. I liked the book because the author allows you to picture everything.
I rated it 3 ½ because it gives important beginnings and ends away, and also I thought they described everything that happens so you can just tell what the end is going to be. I loved the words the used to describe each character.
I would recommend this book for second graders because some would like the sea and others the dolphins and its description.

Rating: 5 Summary: Sociological Literature for Young People
Comment I am writing this as a reply to the review entitled "OMG THIS BOOK WAS HORRIBLE."

This novel is not about it being a "true" story, which it isn't, but about the development of language and social communication and interaction.

An example case relative to Mila's predicament would be the case of Isabelle, who was discovered when she was 6 years old in a dark room, where her family kept her secluded from the world. She hadn't properly developed speech, nor did she have social experience.

The point is that as the book progresses, the author writes from Mila's perspective as she develops her language skills.