The S.O.U.R.C.E., by Suzanna Royse (Fulton Books, 2021, 209 pp, 2nd edition, $18.95, ages 8-12)
The Plot
Two skateboard kid champions who live next to the ocean get too close and are dragged down by a riptide.
Flash forward to Ocean World, a humungous "ocean aquarium" and tourist spot that also heals injured ocean animals with the goal of returning them to their oceanic habitat. However, here we also have the mad scientists who use technology for their own purposes.
Whales and Sea Otters
Some of the ocean mammals at Ocean World long for the families they were taken from, in order to wow the visiting humans, so they hatch a plan of escape and carry it out but they run into danger along the way and also run into the kids.
Can the kids save the escaped animals? Can the kids themselves be saved? What is the danger that faces the ocean mammals? Is it true that the future of the world is in the hands of today's children and that they can change the world for the better, even now, as young as they are? How does one know whom to trust? And can animals really talk? Does the mother of all sea creatures really exist? And what is the significance of S.O.U.R.C.E.?
Bonus: Just enough illustrations so the reader can race through this book. An illustrated glossary in the back.
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