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Swimming with Spies
Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger
Illustrator: map by Jim McMahon/Mapman®
Ages: 12+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Scholastic Press/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-339-01246-9
Keywords: Adventure/Mystery-Dolphins, Human animal communication, Crimea ( Ukraine) Russian Occupation.
In 2014, with Russian aggression escalating in Ukraine, 12-year-old Sofiya works with her father, director of the Sevastopol dolphinarium, to save the animals in their care. Based on true events. Back matter. Glossary.