A pilot spots a girl on an uninhabited island and rescues her. Her caretakers soon learn that Mila has been living in the ocean with the dolphins. She wants to please her new family but desperately misses her dolphin family. ( )

Mila has been raised by dolphins. After being discovered and taken to be rehabilitated and studied by scientists, she misses the ocean and her dolphin family. ( )

awsome book!! ( )

"This is a truly enchanting and provocative story of a human girl raised by dolphins from the age of 4. When the scientists begin studying her, she amazes them with her unique abilities. She plays music, she learns speech and complex ideas, but when they restrict her movements, she cannot reconcile that with the dolphins' free ways. While still in her primitive state, Mila's responses are shown in very large type; as her language acquisition improves, the typeface reflects her sophistication. But Mila knows she will always be an object for study and takes the only path that will allow her to be happy. " (Jan Lieberman's review) ( )

Media: None (novel)
age: Intermediate
Genre: realistic fiction ( )