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Find Your Porpoise

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Everyone's favorite dog-and-porpoise duo reunite in this sequel to M. C. Ross's smash hit, A Dog's Porpoise!

Autumn on the Maine coastline: beautiful red leaves, hot apple cider, crashing waves, and . . . dogs playing with porpoises? That's life for Lars and Bangor, a dog and harbor porpoise, best friends in the town of Ogunquit — and everyone knows it. They became a sensation after Bangor was separated from his pod and trapped in the harbor, and it was up to Lars and his human, Natalie, to reunite him with his family.

Now, Bangor and his pod are back, but they're not the only newcomers in town: Oguinquit has been overrun with tourists and reporters (and in the off-season, too!) who want to catch a glimpse of the dog-and-porpoise duo. And to make things worse for Lars, a river otter named Marina has captured everyone's hearts — including Bangor's! With Marina taking center stage, will Lars' and Bangor's friendship ever be the same again?

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    • Kirkus

      April 1, 2024
      A gregarious harbor porpoise gains an expanded circle of land-based friends and allies in this sequel to A Dog's Porpoise (2019). Into this second wholesome, joyfully splashy episode, the pun-loving author folds both sober concerns about the hazards of human-wild animal interactions and a cautionary subplot about being too quick to judge others. Lars the dog is delighted to dive in with Natalie, his adopted human, to play with finny, friendly harbor porpoise Bangor. But a likewise playful river otter, soon dubbed "Marina" by charmed observers, arrives to replace him as the center of attention. Worse yet (from Natalie's point of view, anyway), the furry new visitor brings not only a fresh flood of reporters and tourists to sleepy Ogunquit, Maine, but also a standoffish stranger, formerly associated with an abusive roadside animal attraction, who asks ominously sharp questions about exactly where the otter and Bangor's family pod are most often spotted. As it turns out, the stranger's motives are actually benign, and no sooner does he voice warnings about how being too comfortable around humans can place wild animals in danger than Bangor is wounded in a collision with a boat and beached. This crisis sets the stage for both a dramatic rescue (in which even Lars and the otter play important roles) and better relations all round. The mildly anthropomorphic creature cast is joined by a human one that's cued white. Aswim with good feelings and cogent points to ponder. (Fiction. 8-11)

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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:5.9
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:4

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