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Middle grade readers will be especially interested in this title featuring an eleven-year-old girl who has strong connections with animals. Although the story takes place in one possible future for our environment in which many species no longer exist in the wild and those that do exist are kept captive in order to save them, readers will quickly see the connections to global warming and habitat loss today. Kiri spends her days helping her conservationist father as he tests the ocean water and w
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