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Annika Figaro wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Dolphin song is a really good book. it is about a girl named Martine. Martine finds out she is going on a field trip. The field trip will last 10 days. They are going on a sardine run. Martine is terrified, she does not want to go at all. She is afraid that she will get attacked by sharks or drown. When they get on the boat Martine is a little bit scared. When it is around their third day out on the sea a big storm comes and breaks the rail on the boat. seven kids ended up falling off bored, one of the seven was Martine. after a week of being stranded on an island the kids ended up getting saved.”
Mazie wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Term 3.. 272 pages..
Kenzie W. wrote this review Monday, February 13, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
1. The parts that i think are most important to the text are when the kids fall off the ship and the dolphins rescue them and take them to the Dugong Islands.
2. I think the most important part of this story is where the 7 passengers fall off of the ship.... If they wouldn't have fallen off of the ship then none of the story would have happened.
3. I find Ben as my favorite character... It seems as though he always knows what to say and to do....... He always seems to have a positive attitude too..”“Martine is just getting used to her new life on the game reserve with her grandmother and the white giraffe, Jemmy, when she must go away. Her class is going on a trip - an ocean voyage to watch the sardine run, a spectacular natural phenomenon off the coast of South Africa. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Martine and several of her classmates are thrown overboard into shark-infested waters! They are saved by a pod of dolphins and end up marooned on a deserted island.Their survival skills are all put in the test to ensure both the survival of Martine and her friends and the pod of dolphins that saved them.Eventually,they were all saved after many courageous incidents and everyone survived and returned home safely.
Jeffrey Y wrote this review Wednesday, January 25, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“ This book is about a plane crash that leaves a group of students stranded on a deserted island.”
Nikki H. wrote this review Friday, January 13, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The sequel to The White Giraffe finds Martine heading out with her school chums on a field trip to see the Sardine Run. While on the trip seven children, including Martine and Ben, are swept overboard in a storm. Dolphins save the children and take them to a deserted island. They must learn to work together to survive and solve the mystery of beached dolphins. Once they discover the danger to the dolphins, can they save them? Will they themselves be rescued? Another charming tale from St. John; steeped in environmental political correctness, but charming nonetheless. ”
Iceangel9 wrote this review Sunday, November 27, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“awesome!”
Taylor Olive wrote this review Thursday, November 10, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Term 1, 250
Sharon T. wrote this review Thursday, October 27, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
While I was reading Dolphin Song (the sequal to The White Giraffe) I felt really excited about the advetures that I was reading about. I got caught up in the text with much enthusiasm and excitement. There is a part in this book where Martine and some of her classmates become stranded on a mostly desert island. Luckily, Martine had followed her instructions from Tendia to always keep her survival kit with her at all times on her sea voyage feild trip with her class mates. She eventually has to survive on the island without it. If I was in this situation, without a survival kit, I would probably look for some strong flexible grasses for fishing and other uses. Martine had a fishing line with a hook on it in her survival kit. I also would have built a stucture for a home until I was found and taken to my family. I would also do the lther things that Martine did, but not as good as she did them because of my own skills.
There are a few things that I would change about the ending of this book. What disapointed me was that five of the main characters in this book went to a seaside restraunt on a sunday. I would change that visit to the restraunt to a friday or saturday. I would change this because of may religion. In my religion, sunday is a sabbath day and you should not shop and spend money that day unless it is your tithing or fast offerings. I would also change the fact that Martine did not see any dolphins but one that same day that she visisted the seaside restraunt. I would make it so that she would get to see all of the dolphins that Ben, the rest of her classmates and she helped rescue from the heat of the day when they beached themselves.
I was really suprised with how some of the characters and they edend up. One of these characters that I was really suprised with was Claudius. At the begining of the book, he is a mean and selfish boy. He thinks of himself as a popular kid, and does not want anything to do with any of the kids at the school that are not popular. He is alsways teasing other kids about what they look like, to how they dod in school. While he is on the ship, he fights for a life jacket that is on another kid. On the desert island, after gowing in the water, he comes in contact with a Jappanese Man-o-war. This makes him swell and becomes unconscious. Martine helps to heal him with the sap from the plant that Grace gave her. From this Claudius changed. He became nicer, unselfish, willing to help others, thankful, and many other things. He ends up being really nice to Martine and the others around him. He no longer thinks that he should bully people after her was helped by one of the people that he did bully. Claudius changed a lot in this book. ”“Yea! Another great book from Lauren St. John. I like how people changed in this book. These books always give me joy! ”
Gian wrote this review Thursday, October 27, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Martine is a pre-teen girl, now an orphan, living with her grandmother in South Africa after a horrible death of her parents. She has two best friends – Jemmy, a white giraffe with whom she shares a beautiful history, and Ben, a boy of the same age at her school.
NehaB wrote this review Tuesday, October 25, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Martine has to deal with many issues, sometimes too many for a child.
And then, an impossible challenge follows. Martine’s school trip doesn’t go as planned. A terrible tragedy strikes their ship in the middle of the ocean. Martine and her classmates, also Ben, find themselves on an uninhabited island where dolphins come into picture again. Not only she faces an ultimate survival test, but also finds that her help is badly needed one more time.
This book is amazing and has a lot of adventure in it.”
